Which to use
“exigeant” and “exigeants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,999
- “exigeant” frequency rank
- #25,310
- “exigeants” frequency rank
- 35309
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | exigeant | exigeants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est dans l’habitude d’exiger beaucoup ou trop de déférence, d’attentions, de travail, d’argent, de services. | Masculin pluriel de exigeant. |
Same sound, different letters: exigeant vs exigeants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. exigeant runs 8 letters (VCVCVVCC) against exigeants's 9 (VCVCVVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: exigeant vs exigeants
This is the hard kind. exigeant and exigeants are pronounced identically (\ɛɡ.zi.ʒɑ̃\) 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) - “exigeant” sits inside “exigeants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35309, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
exigeant is recorded at frequency rank #9,999, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛɡ.zi.ʒɑ̃\. exigeants is at rank #25,310, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛɡ.zi.ʒɑ̃\.
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 35309, this pair ranks #277,680 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of exigeant vs exigeants
Shared letters: aegintx. Private to "exigeant": -. Private to "exigeants": s.
"exigeant" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVVCC · "exigeants" · 9 letters · shape VCVCVVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "exigeant" and "exigeants" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "exigeant" or "exigeants"?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "exigeant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "exigeants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #277,680 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "exigeant" and "exigeants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "émigrants vs exigeants". 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 #277,680 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.