Which to use
“acceptable” and “acceptables” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,644
- “acceptable” frequency rank
- #21,832
- “acceptables” frequency rank
- 30476
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | acceptable | acceptables |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui peut, qui doit être accepté. | Pluriel de acceptable. |
Same sound, different letters: acceptable vs acceptables
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - acceptable / acceptables
This is the hard kind. acceptable and acceptables are pronounced identically (\ak.sɛp.tabl\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “acceptable” sits inside “acceptables”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30476, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
acceptable is recorded at frequency rank #8,644, classified as anadj, pronounced \ak.sɛp.tabl\. acceptables is at rank #21,832, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ak.sɛp.tabl\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 30476, this pair ranks #310,079 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of acceptable vs acceptables
Shared letters: abcelpt. Private to "acceptable": -. Private to "acceptables": s.
"acceptable" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCV · "acceptables" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- acceptable ← accepatble · accepptable · acceptabble · acceptabel · acceptablle · acceptalbe · acceptbale · accepttable
- acceptables ← accepatbles · accepptables · acceptabbles · acceptabels · acceptabless · acceptablles · acceptablse · acceptalbes
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "acceptable" and "acceptables" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "acceptable" or "acceptables" show up more?
Useful next steps
"acceptable" and "acceptables" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "acceptable" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "acceptables" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #310,079 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #310,079 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.