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Which to use

“allergique” and “allergiques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#14,408
“allergique” frequency rank
#27,686
“allergiques” frequency rank
42094
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature allergique allergiques
Definition Se dit d’une personne dont le système immunitaire réagit de façon plutôt vive à la présence d’un corps étranger. Pluriel de allergique.

Same sound, different letters: allergique vs allergiques

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. allergique runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVCVV) against allergiques's 11 (VCCVCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
allergique
11 ch
allergiques

Ear matches; page differs - allergique and allergiques

This is the hard kind. allergique and allergiques are pronounced identically (\a.lɛʁ.ʒik\) 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) - “allergique” sits inside “allergiques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42094, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

allergique is recorded at frequency rank #14,408, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.lɛʁ.ʒik\. allergiques is at rank #27,686, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.lɛʁ.ʒik\.

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 42094, this pair ranks #228,265 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of allergique vs allergiques

Shared letters: aegilqru. Private to "allergique": -. Private to "allergiques": s.

"allergique" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVV  ·  "allergiques" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • allergique ← alelrgique · alergique · allegrique · allerggique · allergiqeu · allergiqque · allergiuqe · allergqiue
  • allergiques ← alelrgiques · alergiques · allegriques · allerggiques · allergiqeus · allergiqques · allergiquess · allergiquse

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "allergique" for "allergiques" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.lɛʁ.ʒik\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "allergique" vs "allergiques" - which ranks higher?
"allergique" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,408 in our French list, against #27,686 for "allergiques". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "allergique" / "allergiques". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "allergique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "allergiques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #228,265 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "allergique" and "allergiques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "allergies vs allergiques". 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 #228,265 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list