Which to use
“direct” and “directes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,256
- “direct” frequency rank
- #10,688
- “directes” frequency rank
- 11944
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | direct | directes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est droit, qui ne fait aucun détour. | Féminin pluriel de direct. |
Same sound, different letters: direct vs directes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - direct and directes
This is the hard kind. direct and directes are pronounced identically (\di.ʁɛkt\) 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) - “direct” sits inside “directes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11944, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
direct is recorded at frequency rank #1,256, classified as anadj, pronounced \di.ʁɛkt\. directes is at rank #10,688, tagged as anadj, pronounced \di.ʁɛkt\.
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 11944, this pair ranks #407,170 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of direct vs directes
Shared letters: cdeirt. Private to "direct": -. Private to "directes": s.
"direct" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC · "directes" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "direct" for "directes" ever safe?
Frequency check: "direct" vs "directes" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"direct" and "directes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "direct" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "directes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #407,170 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "direct" and "directes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "directes vs director". 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 #407,170 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.