Which to use
“excessive” and “excessives” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,152
- “excessive” frequency rank
- #26,725
- “excessives” frequency rank
- 36877
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excessive | excessives |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de excessif. | Féminin pluriel de excessif. |
Same sound, different letters: excessive vs excessives
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. excessive runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVCV) against excessives's 10 (VCCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - excessive and excessives
This is the hard kind. excessive and excessives are pronounced identically (\ɛk.se.siv\) 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) - “excessive” sits inside “excessives”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36877, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excessive is recorded at frequency rank #10,152, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛk.se.siv\. 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 36877, this pair ranks #266,497 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of excessive vs excessives
Shared letters: ceisvx. Private to "excessive": -. Private to "excessives": -.
"excessive" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCV · "excessives" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- excessive ← ecxessive · exccessive · excesisve · excesive · excessiev · excessivve · excessvie · excsesive
- excessives ← ecxessives · exccessives · excesisves · excesives · excessievs · excessivess · excessivse · excessivves
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "excessive" and "excessives" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "excessive" vs "excessives" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"excessive" and "excessives" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "excessive" 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 #266,497 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excessive" and "excessives" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excessifs vs excessives". 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 #266,497 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.