Which to use
“anormal” and “anormales” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,715
- “anormal” frequency rank
- #39,154
- “anormales” frequency rank
- 51869
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | anormal | anormales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est contraire aux règles qui paraissent régir son genre ou son espèce. | Féminin pluriel de anormal. |
Same sound, different letters: anormal vs anormales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. anormal runs 7 letters (VCVCCVC) against anormales's 9 (VCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - anormal and anormales
This is the hard kind. anormal and anormales are pronounced identically (\a.nɔʁ.mal\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “anormal” sits inside “anormales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51869, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
anormal is recorded at frequency rank #12,715, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.nɔʁ.mal\. anormales is at rank #39,154, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.nɔʁ.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 51869, this pair ranks #151,845 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of anormal vs anormales
Shared letters: almnor. Private to "anormal": -. Private to "anormales": es.
"anormal" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC · "anormales" · 9 letters · shape VCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "anormal" for "anormales" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "anormal" or "anormales" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "anormal" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "anormales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #151,845 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "anormal" and "anormales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "anormale vs anormales". 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 #151,845 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.