Which to use
“complicité” and “complicités” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,936
- “complicité” frequency rank
- #46,078
- “complicités” frequency rank
- 53014
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | complicité | complicités |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participation au délit ou au crime d’un autre. | Pluriel de complicité. |
Same sound, different letters: complicité vs complicités
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. complicité runs 10 letters (CVCCCVCVCV) against complicités's 11 (CVCCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - complicité and complicités
This is the hard kind. complicité and complicités are pronounced identically (\kɔ̃.pli.si.te\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “complicité” sits inside “complicités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53014, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
complicité is recorded at frequency rank #6,936, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ̃.pli.si.te\. complicités is at rank #46,078, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ̃.pli.si.te\.
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 53014, this pair ranks #143,684 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of complicité vs complicités
Shared letters: cilmopté. Private to "complicité": -. Private to "complicités": s.
"complicité" · 10 letters · shape CVCCCVCVCV · "complicités" · 11 letters · shape CVCCCVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "complicité" for "complicités" ever safe?
Frequency check: "complicité" vs "complicités" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "complicité" / "complicités". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "complicité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "complicités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #143,684 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "complicité" and "complicités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "complices vs complicités". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #143,684 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.