cardiovasculaire vs cardiovasculaires

Which to use

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

#33,593
“cardiovasculaire” frequency rank: #28,472
“cardiovasculaires” frequency rank: 62065
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	cardiovasculaire	cardiovasculaires
Definition	En rapport avec le cœur, les vaisseaux sanguins.	Pluriel de cardiovasculaire.

Same sound, different letters: cardiovasculaire vs cardiovasculaires

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 16 letters. cardiovasculaire runs 16 letters (CVCCVVCVCCVCVVCV) against cardiovasculaires's 17 (CVCCVVCVCCVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

16 ch

cardiovasculaire

17 ch

cardiovasculaires

Homophone desk: cardiovasculaire vs cardiovasculaires

This is the hard kind. cardiovasculaire and cardiovasculaires are pronounced identically (\kaʁ.djo.vas.ky.lɛʁ\) 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) - “cardiovasculaire” sits inside “cardiovasculaires”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62065, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cardiovasculaire is recorded at frequency rank #33,593, classified as anadj, pronounced \kaʁ.djo.vas.ky.lɛʁ\. cardiovasculaires is at rank #28,472, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kaʁ.djo.vas.ky.lɛʁ\.

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 62065, this pair ranks #89,025 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of cardiovasculaire vs cardiovasculaires

Shared letters: acdeilorsuv. Private to "cardiovasculaire": -. Private to "cardiovasculaires": -.

"cardiovasculaire" · 16 letters · shape CVCCVVCVCCVCVVCV · "cardiovasculaires" · 17 letters · shape CVCCVVCVCCVCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

cardiovasculaire ← acrdiovasculaire · cadriovasculaire · carddiovasculaire · cardioavsculaire · cardiovacsulaire · cardiovascculaire · cardiovascluaire · cardiovascualire
cardiovasculaires ← acrdiovasculaires · cadriovasculaires · carddiovasculaires · cardioavsculaires · cardiovacsulaires · cardiovascculaires · cardiovascluaires · cardiovascualires

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "cardiovasculaire" and "cardiovasculaires" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\kaʁ.djo.vas.ky.lɛʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Which is more common, "cardiovasculaire" or "cardiovasculaires"?

"cardiovasculaires" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,472 in our French list, against #33,593 for "cardiovasculaire". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "cardiovasculaire" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "cardiovasculaires" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #89,025 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
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 #89,025 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.