Which to use
“appendice” and “appendices” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,261
- “appendice” frequency rank
- #38,143
- “appendices” frequency rank
- 64404
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appendice | appendices |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ce qui semble appendu, ajouté à une autre chose. | Pluriel de appendice. |
Same sound, different letters: appendice vs appendices
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - appendice / appendices
This is the hard kind. appendice and appendices are pronounced identically (\a.pɛ̃.dis\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “appendice” sits inside “appendices”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64404, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appendice is recorded at frequency rank #26,261, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.pɛ̃.dis\. appendices is at rank #38,143, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.pɛ̃.dis\.
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 64404, this pair ranks #77,242 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of appendice vs appendices
Shared letters: acdeinp. Private to "appendice": -. Private to "appendices": s.
"appendice" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCV · "appendices" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- appendice ← apendice · apepndice · appednice · appendcie · appenddice · appendicce · appendiec · appenidce
- appendices ← apendices · apepndices · appednices · appendcies · appenddices · appendicces · appendicess · appendicse
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "appendice" for "appendices" ever safe?
Which is more common, "appendice" or "appendices"?
After this comparison
"appendice" and "appendices" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "appendice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "appendices" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #77,242 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appendice" and "appendices" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appendice vs appendicite". 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 #77,242 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.