Which to use
“auditive” and “auditives” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #34,878
- “auditive” frequency rank
- #41,134
- “auditives” frequency rank
- 76012
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | auditive | auditives |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de auditif. | Féminin pluriel de auditif. |
Same sound, different letters: auditive vs auditives
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Homophone desk: auditive vs auditives
This is the hard kind. auditive and auditives are pronounced identically (\o.di.tiv\) 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) - “auditive” sits inside “auditives”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76012, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
auditive is recorded at frequency rank #34,878, classified as anadj, pronounced \o.di.tiv\. auditives is at rank #41,134, tagged as anadj, pronounced \o.di.tiv\.
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 76012, this pair ranks #32,353 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of auditive vs auditives
Shared letters: adeituv. Private to "auditive": -. Private to "auditives": s.
"auditive" · 8 letters · shape VVCVCVCV · "auditives" · 9 letters · shape VVCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "auditive" and "auditives" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "auditive" or "auditives" show up more?
What to do next
"auditive" and "auditives" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "auditive" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "auditives" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #32,353 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "auditive" and "auditives" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "auditif vs auditive". 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 #32,353 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.