Which to use
“écologique” and “écologiques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,540
- “écologique” frequency rank
- #11,155
- “écologiques” frequency rank
- 15695
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | écologique | écologiques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui concerne l’écologie ou qui appartient à cette discipline. | Pluriel de écologique. |
Same sound, different letters: écologique vs écologiques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. écologique runs 10 letters (VCVCVCVCVV) against écologiques's 11 (VCVCVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - écologique / écologiques
This is the hard kind. écologique and écologiques are pronounced identically (\e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒik\) 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 1 extra letter(s) - “écologique” sits inside “écologiques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15695, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
écologique is recorded at frequency rank #4,540, classified as anadj, pronounced \e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒik\. écologiques is at rank #11,155, tagged as anadj, pronounced \e.kɔ.lɔ.ʒik\.
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 15695, this pair ranks #391,223 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of écologique vs écologiques
Shared letters: cegiloqué. Private to "écologique": -. Private to "écologiques": s.
"écologique" · 10 letters · shape VCVCVCVCVV · "écologiques" · 11 letters · shape VCVCVCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "écologique" vs "écologiques" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"écologique" and "écologiques" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "écologique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "écologiques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #391,223 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "écologique" and "écologiques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "écologiques vs écologistes". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #391,223 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.