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“admirable” and “admirables” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,078
- “admirable” frequency rank
- #39,135
- “admirables” frequency rank
- 54213
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | admirable | admirables |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui mérite ou qui attire l’admiration. | Pluriel de admirable. |
Same sound, different letters: admirable vs admirables
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. admirable runs 9 letters (VCCVCVCCV) against admirables's 10 (VCCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - admirable and admirables
This is the hard kind. admirable and admirables are pronounced identically (\ad.mi.ʁabl\) 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) - “admirable” sits inside “admirables”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54213, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
admirable is recorded at frequency rank #15,078, classified as anadj, pronounced \ad.mi.ʁabl\. admirables is at rank #39,135, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ad.mi.ʁabl\.
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 54213, this pair ranks #135,476 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of admirable vs admirables
Shared letters: abdeilmr. Private to "admirable": -. Private to "admirables": s.
"admirable" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCCV · "admirables" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- admirable ← addmirable · adimrable · admiarble · admirabble · admirabel · admirablle · admiralbe · admirbale
- admirables ← addmirables · adimrables · admiarbles · admirabbles · admirabels · admirabless · admirablles · admirablse
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "admirable" and "admirables" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "admirable" or "admirables"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "admirable" / "admirables". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "admirable" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "admirables" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #135,476 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "admirable" and "admirables" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "admirable vs Admiral". 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 #135,476 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.