digitalevsdigitalesWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: digitale is a noun, digitales is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“digitale” is a noun and “digitales” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#12,764
“digitale” frequency rank
#19,507
“digitales” frequency rank
32271
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature digitale digitales
Definition Plante de la famille des Scrophulariacées, dont la fleur en longs épis pourpres ressemble quelque peu à un doigt de gant. Féminin pluriel de digital.

Same sound, different letters: digitale vs digitales

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. digitale runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCV) against digitales's 9 (CVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
digitale
9 ch
digitales

Same sound, different spelling - digitale / digitales

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: digitale and digitales carry the same recorded pronunciation, \di.ʒi.tal\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “digitale” sits inside “digitales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32271, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

digitale is recorded at frequency rank #12,764, classified as anoun, 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 32271, this pair ranks #298,354 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of digitale vs digitales

Shared letters: adegilt. Private to "digitale": -. Private to "digitales": s.

"digitale" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV  ·  "digitales" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • digitale ← ddigitale · dgiitale · diggitale · digiatle · digitael · digitalle · digitlae · digittale
  • digitales ← ddigitales · dgiitales · diggitales · digiatles · digitaels · digitaless · digitalles · digitalse

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "digitale" for "digitales" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "digitale" is a noun and "digitales" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "digitale" or "digitales"?
"digitale" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,764 in our French list, against #19,507 for "digitales". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "digitale" 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 #298,354 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "digitale" and "digitales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "digitale 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 #298,354 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