Which to use
“biographique” and “biographiques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,180
- “biographique” frequency rank
- #31,369
- “biographiques” frequency rank
- 53549
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | biographique | biographiques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est relatif à la biographie ou à la vie d’une personne. | Pluriel de biographique. |
Same sound, different letters: biographique vs biographiques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - biographique and biographiques
This is the hard kind. biographique and biographiques are pronounced identically (\bjɔ.ɡʁa.fik\) 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) - “biographique” sits inside “biographiques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53549, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
biographique is recorded at frequency rank #22,180, classified as anadj, pronounced \bjɔ.ɡʁa.fik\. biographiques is at rank #31,369, tagged as anadj, pronounced \bjɔ.ɡʁa.fik\.
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 53549, this pair ranks #139,977 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of biographique vs biographiques
Shared letters: abeghiopqru. Private to "biographique": -. Private to "biographiques": s.
"biographique" · 12 letters · shape CVVCCVCCVCVV · "biographiques" · 13 letters · shape CVVCCVCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- biographique ← bbiographique · bigoraphique · biogarphique · bioggraphique · biograhpique · biographhique · biographiqeu · biographiqque
- biographiques ← bbiographiques · bigoraphiques · biogarphiques · bioggraphiques · biograhpiques · biographhiques · biographiqeus · biographiqques
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "biographique" and "biographiques" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "biographique" vs "biographiques" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "biographique" / "biographiques". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "biographique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "biographiques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #139,977 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "biographique" and "biographiques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "biographies vs biographiques". 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 #139,977 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.