Which to use
“digue” and “digues” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,169
- “digue” frequency rank
- #25,277
- “digues” frequency rank
- 43446
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | digue | digues |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Levée de terre, de pierres, de bois, etc. pour contenir des eaux d’un fleuve, d’un torrent, d’un lac, et contrer les flots de la mer. | Pluriel de digue. |
Same sound, different letters: digue vs digues
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Homophone desk: digue vs digues
This is the hard kind. digue and digues are pronounced identically (\diɡ\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “digue” sits inside “digues”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43446, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
digue is recorded at frequency rank #18,169, classified as anoun, pronounced \diɡ\. digues is at rank #25,277, tagged as anoun, pronounced \diɡ\.
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 43446, this pair ranks #218,008 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of digue vs digues
Shared letters: degiu. Private to "digue": -. Private to "digues": s.
"digue" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV · "digues" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "digue" and "digues" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "digue" or "digues" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "digue" / "digues". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "digue" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "digues" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #218,008 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "digue" and "digues" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "digues vs dragues". 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 #218,008 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.