Which to use
“digital” and “digitales” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,077
- “digital” frequency rank
- #19,507
- “digitales” frequency rank
- 25584
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | digital | digitales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui appartient aux doigts. | Féminin pluriel de digital. |
Same sound, different letters: digital vs digitales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. digital runs 7 letters (CVCVCVC) against digitales's 9 (CVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - digital and digitales
This is the hard kind. digital and digitales are pronounced identically (\di.ʒi.tal\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “digital” sits inside “digitales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25584, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
digital is recorded at frequency rank #6,077, classified as anadj, pronounced \di.ʒi.tal\. digitales is at rank #19,507, tagged as anadj, pronounced \di.ʒi.tal\.
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 25584, this pair ranks #340,017 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of digital vs digitales
Shared letters: adgilt. Private to "digital": -. Private to "digitales": es.
"digital" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC · "digitales" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "digital" and "digitales" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "digital" or "digitales"?
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 "digital" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "digitales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #340,017 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "digital" and "digitales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "digital vs digitaux". 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 #340,017 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.