Which to use
“agile” and “agiles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,229
- “agile” frequency rank
- #39,140
- “agiles” frequency rank
- 60369
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | agile | agiles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui a des facilités pour agir ou se mouvoir, dispos, léger, souple. | Pluriel de agile. |
Same sound, different letters: agile vs agiles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. agile runs 5 letters (VCVCV) against agiles's 6 (VCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - agile and agiles
This is the hard kind. agile and agiles are pronounced identically (\a.ʒil\) 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) - “agile” sits inside “agiles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60369, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
agile is recorded at frequency rank #21,229, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ʒil\. agiles is at rank #39,140, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.ʒil\.
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 60369, this pair ranks #97,946 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of agile vs agiles
Shared letters: aegil. Private to "agile": -. Private to "agiles": s.
"agile" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV · "agiles" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "agile" for "agiles" ever safe?
Frequency check: "agile" vs "agiles" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "agile" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "agiles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #97,946 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "agile" and "agiles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agiles vs agitées". 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 #97,946 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.