Which to use
“addict” and “addicts” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,243
- “addict” frequency rank
- #47,134
- “addicts” frequency rank
- 73377
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | addict | addicts |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est drogué, accro, sous dépendance. | Masculin pluriel de addict. |
Same sound, different letters: addict vs addicts
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. addict runs 6 letters (VCCVCC) against addicts's 7 (VCCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - addict / addicts
This is the hard kind. addict and addicts are pronounced identically (\a.dikt\) 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) - “addict” sits inside “addicts”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73377, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
addict is recorded at frequency rank #26,243, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.dikt\. addicts is at rank #47,134, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.dikt\.
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 73377, this pair ranks #40,683 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of addict vs addicts
Shared letters: acdit. Private to "addict": -. Private to "addicts": s.
"addict" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC · "addicts" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "addict" and "addicts" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "addict" vs "addicts" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "addict" / "addicts". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "addict" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "addicts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #40,683 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "addict" and "addicts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "addicts vs audits". Nearby pair
- 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 #40,683 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.