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

#20,347
“angulaire” frequency rank
#46,575
“angulaires” frequency rank
66922
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature angulaire angulaires
Definition Qui a la forme d’un angle. Pluriel de angulaire.

Same sound, different letters: angulaire vs angulaires

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. angulaire runs 9 letters (VCCVCVVCV) against angulaires's 10 (VCCVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
angulaire
10 ch
angulaires

Ear matches; page differs - angulaire and angulaires

This is the hard kind. angulaire and angulaires are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.ɡy.lɛʁ\) 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) - “angulaire” sits inside “angulaires”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66922, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

angulaire is recorded at frequency rank #20,347, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.ɡy.lɛʁ\. angulaires is at rank #46,575, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.ɡy.lɛʁ\.

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 66922, this pair ranks #65,695 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of angulaire vs angulaires

Shared letters: aegilnru. Private to "angulaire": -. Private to "angulaires": s.

"angulaire" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVVCV  ·  "angulaires" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • angulaire ← agnulaire · anggulaire · angluaire · angualire · angulaier · angulairre · angularie · anguliare
  • angulaires ← agnulaires · anggulaires · angluaires · angualires · angulaiers · angulairess · angulairres · angulairse

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "angulaire" and "angulaires" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɑ̃.ɡy.lɛʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "angulaire" vs "angulaires" - which ranks higher?
"angulaire" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,347 in our French list, against #46,575 for "angulaires". 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 "angulaire" / "angulaires". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "angulaire" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "angulaires" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #65,695 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "angulaire" and "angulaires" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "angulaires vs annuaires". 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 #65,695 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