Which to use
“cinglé” and “cinglés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #30,523
- “cinglé” frequency rank
- #40,670
- “cinglés” frequency rank
- 71193
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cinglé | cinglés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Fou. | Masculin pluriel de cinglé. |
Same sound, different letters: cinglé vs cinglés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Homophone desk: cinglé vs cinglés
This is the hard kind. cinglé and cinglés are pronounced identically (\sɛ̃.ɡle\) 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) - “cinglé” sits inside “cinglés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71193, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cinglé is recorded at frequency rank #30,523, classified as anadj, pronounced \sɛ̃.ɡle\. cinglés is at rank #40,670, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sɛ̃.ɡle\.
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 71193, this pair ranks #48,472 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of cinglé vs cinglés
Shared letters: cgilné. Private to "cinglé": -. Private to "cinglés": s.
"cinglé" · 6 letters · shape CVCCCV · "cinglés" · 7 letters · shape CVCCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
"cinglé" and "cinglés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "cinglé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cinglés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #48,472 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cinglé" and "cinglés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cinglés vs congres". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #48,472 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.