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

#13,964
“aquatique” frequency rank
#15,566
“aquatiques” frequency rank
29530
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aquatique aquatiques
Definition Qui croît et se nourrit dans l’eau. Pluriel de aquatique.

Same sound, different letters: aquatique vs aquatiques

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

9 ch
aquatique
10 ch
aquatiques

Homophone desk: aquatique vs aquatiques

This is the hard kind. aquatique and aquatiques are pronounced identically (\a.kwa.tik\) 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) - “aquatique” sits inside “aquatiques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29530, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aquatique is recorded at frequency rank #13,964, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.kwa.tik\. aquatiques is at rank #15,566, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.kwa.tik\.

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 29530, this pair ranks #316,095 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of aquatique vs aquatiques

Shared letters: aeiqtu. Private to "aquatique": -. Private to "aquatiques": s.

"aquatique" · 9 letters · shape VCVVCVCVV  ·  "aquatiques" · 10 letters · shape VCVVCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aquatique ← aqautique · aqquatique · aquaitque · aquatiqeu · aquatiqque · aquatiuqe · aquatqiue · aquattique
  • aquatiques ← aqautiques · aqquatiques · aquaitques · aquatiqeus · aquatiqques · aquatiquess · aquatiquse · aquatiuqes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "aquatique" and "aquatiques" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.kwa.tik\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "aquatique" vs "aquatiques" - which ranks higher?
"aquatique" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,964 in our French list, against #15,566 for "aquatiques". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"aquatique" and "aquatiques" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aquatique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aquatiques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #316,095 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aquatique" and "aquatiques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aquatiques vs asiatiques". 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 #316,095 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