Which to use
“exercice” and “exercices” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,661
- “exercice” frequency rank
- #5,131
- “exercices” frequency rank
- 6792
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | exercice | exercices |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’exercer ou de s’exercer. | Pluriel de exercice. |
Same sound, different letters: exercice vs exercices
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - exercice / exercices
This is the hard kind. exercice and exercices are pronounced identically (\ɛɡ.zɛʁ.sis\) 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) - “exercice” sits inside “exercices”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6792, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
exercice is recorded at frequency rank #1,661, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛɡ.zɛʁ.sis\. exercices is at rank #5,131, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛɡ.zɛʁ.sis\.
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 6792, this pair ranks #425,220 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of exercice vs exercices
Shared letters: ceirx. Private to "exercice": -. Private to "exercices": s.
"exercice" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVCV · "exercices" · 9 letters · shape VCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "exercice" and "exercices" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "exercice" vs "exercices" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "exercice" / "exercices". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "exercice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "exercices" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #425,220 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "exercice" and "exercices" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exercées vs exercices". 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 #425,220 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.