Which to use
“excessifs” and “excessives” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,766
- “excessifs” frequency rank
- #26,725
- “excessives” frequency rank
- 56491
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excessifs | excessives |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Masculin pluriel de excessif. | Féminin pluriel de excessif. |
Where the eye mixes excessifs and excessives
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. excessifs runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVCC) against excessives's 10 (VCCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Why the eye confuses excessifs with excessives
A purely visual mix-up. excessifs (\ɛk.se.sif\) and excessives (\ɛk.se.siv\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56491, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excessifs is recorded at frequency rank #29,766, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛk.se.sif\. excessives is at rank #26,725, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛk.se.siv\.
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 56491, this pair ranks #120,797 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of excessifs vs excessives
Shared letters: ceisx. Private to "excessifs": f. Private to "excessives": v.
"excessifs" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC · "excessives" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- excessifs ← ecxessifs · exccessifs · excesifs · excesisfs · excessfis · excessiffs · excessifss · excessisf
- excessives ← ecxessives · exccessives · excesisves · excesives · excessievs · excessivess · excessivse · excessivves
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "excessifs" for "excessives" ever safe?
Which is more common, "excessifs" or "excessives"?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "excessifs" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excessives" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #120,797 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excessifs" and "excessives" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excessifs vs expressifs". 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 #120,797 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.