Which to use
“conjugale” and “conjugales” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,641
- “conjugale” frequency rank
- #18,693
- “conjugales” frequency rank
- 33334
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | conjugale | conjugales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de conjugal. | Féminin pluriel de conjugal. |
Same sound, different letters: conjugale vs conjugales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - conjugale and conjugales
This is the hard kind. conjugale and conjugales are pronounced identically (\kɔ̃.ʒy.ɡal\) 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) - “conjugale” sits inside “conjugales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33334, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
conjugale is recorded at frequency rank #14,641, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.ʒy.ɡal\. conjugales is at rank #18,693, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.ʒy.ɡal\.
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 33334, this pair ranks #291,323 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of conjugale vs conjugales
Shared letters: acegjlnou. Private to "conjugale": -. Private to "conjugales": s.
"conjugale" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCV · "conjugales" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- conjugale ← cconjugale · cnojugale · cojnugale · conjguale · conjjugale · conjuagle · conjugael · conjugalle
- conjugales ← cconjugales · cnojugales · cojnugales · conjguales · conjjugales · conjuagles · conjugaels · conjugaless
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "conjugale" and "conjugales" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "conjugale" or "conjugales"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "conjugale" / "conjugales". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "conjugale" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "conjugales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #291,323 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "conjugale" and "conjugales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "conjugale vs conjugaux". 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 #291,323 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.