Which to use
“arachide” and “arachides” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #32,278
- “arachide” frequency rank
- #41,125
- “arachides” frequency rank
- 73403
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | arachide | arachides |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Légumineuse originaire du Mexique, cultivée dans les régions tropicales, sub-tropicales et tempérées, et dont les fruits enterrés après la fécondation contiennent des graines oléagineuses qui fournissent par la pression une huile blanche, d’une saveur agréable. | Pluriel de arachide. |
Same sound, different letters: arachide vs arachides
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. arachide runs 8 letters (VCVCCVCV) against arachides's 9 (VCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: arachide vs arachides
This is the hard kind. arachide and arachides are pronounced identically (\a.ʁa.ʃid\) 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) - “arachide” sits inside “arachides”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73403, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
arachide is recorded at frequency rank #32,278, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.ʁa.ʃid\. arachides is at rank #41,125, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.ʁa.ʃid\.
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 73403, this pair ranks #40,591 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of arachide vs arachides
Shared letters: acdehir. Private to "arachide": -. Private to "arachides": s.
"arachide" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV · "arachides" · 9 letters · shape VCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "arachide" and "arachides" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "arachide" vs "arachides" - which ranks higher?
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 "arachide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "arachides" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #40,591 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "arachide" and "arachides" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "arachides vs archives". 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 #40,591 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.