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“adversaire” and “adversaires” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,586
- “adversaire” frequency rank
- #4,303
- “adversaires” frequency rank
- 7889
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adversaire | adversaires |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Personne qui est opposée à une autre, dans une compétition, un conflit, une lutte, un procès... | Pluriel de adversaire. |
Same sound, different letters: adversaire vs adversaires
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. adversaire runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVVCV) against adversaires's 11 (VCCVCCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - adversaire and adversaires
This is the hard kind. adversaire and adversaires are pronounced identically (\ad.vɛʁ.sɛʁ\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “adversaire” sits inside “adversaires”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7889, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adversaire is recorded at frequency rank #3,586, classified as anoun, pronounced \ad.vɛʁ.sɛʁ\. adversaires is at rank #4,303, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ad.vɛʁ.sɛʁ\.
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 7889, this pair ranks #421,817 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of adversaire vs adversaires
Shared letters: adeirsv. Private to "adversaire": -. Private to "adversaires": -.
"adversaire" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCV · "adversaires" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- adversaire ← addversaire · adevrsaire · adverasire · adverrsaire · adversaier · adversairre · adversarie · adversiare
- adversaires ← addversaires · adevrsaires · adverasires · adverrsaires · adversaiers · adversairess · adversairres · adversairse
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "adversaire" and "adversaires" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "adversaire" or "adversaires"?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "adversaire" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adversaires" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #421,817 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adversaire" and "adversaires" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adversaire vs adversité". 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 #421,817 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.