Which to use
“conique” and “coniques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #27,017
- “conique” frequency rank
- #37,740
- “coniques” frequency rank
- 64757
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | conique | coniques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | En forme de cône. | Pluriel de conique. |
Same sound, different letters: conique vs coniques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. conique runs 7 letters (CVCVCVV) against coniques's 8 (CVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - conique / coniques
This is the hard kind. conique and coniques are pronounced identically (\kɔ.nik\) 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) - “conique” sits inside “coniques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64757, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
conique is recorded at frequency rank #27,017, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.nik\. coniques is at rank #37,740, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.nik\.
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 64757, this pair ranks #75,486 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of conique vs coniques
Shared letters: ceinoqu. Private to "conique": -. Private to "coniques": s.
"conique" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV · "coniques" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "conique" and "coniques" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "conique" or "coniques" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "conique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "coniques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #75,486 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "conique" and "coniques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coniques vs coraniques". 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 #75,486 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.