Which to use
“animale” is a noun and “animales” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,143
- “animale” frequency rank
- #11,906
- “animales” frequency rank
- 19049
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | animale | animales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Animal femelle. | Féminin pluriel de animal. |
Same sound, different letters: animale vs animales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - animale / animales
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: animale and animales carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.ni.mal\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “animale” sits inside “animales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19049, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
animale is recorded at frequency rank #7,143, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.ni.mal\. animales is at rank #11,906, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.ni.mal\.
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 19049, this pair ranks #375,298 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of animale vs animales
Shared letters: aeilmn. Private to "animale": -. Private to "animales": s.
"animale" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCV · "animales" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "animale" and "animales" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "animale" / "animales". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "animale" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "animales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #375,298 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "animale" and "animales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "animales vs animaliers". 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 #375,298 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.