Which to use
“aptitude” and “aptitudes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,306
- “aptitude” frequency rank
- #13,963
- “aptitudes” frequency rank
- 26269
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | aptitude | aptitudes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Capacité, compétence, disposition naturelle à faire quelque chose. | Pluriel de aptitude. |
Same sound, different letters: aptitude vs aptitudes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. aptitude runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCV) against aptitudes's 9 (VCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: aptitude vs aptitudes
This is the hard kind. aptitude and aptitudes are pronounced identically (\ap.ti.tyd\) 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) - “aptitude” sits inside “aptitudes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26269, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
aptitude is recorded at frequency rank #12,306, classified as anoun, pronounced \ap.ti.tyd\. aptitudes is at rank #13,963, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ap.ti.tyd\.
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 26269, this pair ranks #336,094 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of aptitude vs aptitudes
Shared letters: adeiptu. Private to "aptitude": -. Private to "aptitudes": s.
"aptitude" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV · "aptitudes" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "aptitude" and "aptitudes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "aptitude" vs "aptitudes" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"aptitude" and "aptitudes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "aptitude" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "aptitudes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #336,094 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "aptitude" and "aptitudes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "altitudes vs aptitudes". 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 #336,094 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.