Which to use
“agricole” and “agricoles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,701
- “agricole” frequency rank
- #3,732
- “agricoles” frequency rank
- 6433
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | agricole | agricoles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui s’adonne à l’agriculture. Il est presque toujours joint à un nom collectif. | Pluriel de agricole. |
Same sound, different letters: agricole vs agricoles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. agricole runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCV) against agricoles's 9 (VCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: agricole vs agricoles
This is the hard kind. agricole and agricoles are pronounced identically (\a.ɡʁi.kɔl\) 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) - “agricole” sits inside “agricoles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6433, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
agricole is recorded at frequency rank #2,701, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ɡʁi.kɔl\. agricoles is at rank #3,732, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.ɡʁi.kɔl\.
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 6433, this pair ranks #426,224 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of agricole vs agricoles
Shared letters: acegilor. Private to "agricole": -. Private to "agricoles": s.
"agricole" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV · "agricoles" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "agricole" and "agricoles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "agricole" or "agricoles" show up more?
After this comparison
"agricole" and "agricoles" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "agricole" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "agricoles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #426,224 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 #426,224 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.