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“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.

9 ch
conjugale
10 ch
conjugales

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

  • conjugalecconjugale · cnojugale · cojnugale · conjguale · conjjugale · conjuagle · conjugael · conjugalle
  • conjugalescconjugales · cnojugales · cojnugales · conjguales · conjjugales · conjuagles · conjugaels · conjugaless

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "conjugale" and "conjugales" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\kɔ̃.ʒy.ɡal\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "conjugale" or "conjugales"?
"conjugale" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,641 in our French list, against #18,693 for "conjugales". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list