Which to use
“civique” and “civiques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,125
- “civique” frequency rank
- #16,321
- “civiques” frequency rank
- 26446
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | civique | civiques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui concerne le citoyen et la citoyenne. | Pluriel de civique. |
Same sound, different letters: civique vs civiques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. civique runs 7 letters (CVCVCVV) against civiques's 8 (CVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - civique / civiques
This is the hard kind. civique and civiques are pronounced identically (\si.vik\) 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) - “civique” sits inside “civiques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26446, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
civique is recorded at frequency rank #10,125, classified as anadj, pronounced \si.vik\. civiques is at rank #16,321, tagged as anadj, pronounced \si.vik\.
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 26446, this pair ranks #334,957 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of civique vs civiques
Shared letters: ceiquv. Private to "civique": -. Private to "civiques": s.
"civique" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV · "civiques" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "civique" and "civiques" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "civique" or "civiques"?
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 "civique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "civiques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #334,957 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "civique" and "civiques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "civiques vs coniques". 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 #334,957 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.