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.
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "digitale" for "digitales" ever safe?
Which is more common, "digitale" or "digitales"?
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.