Which to use
“filiale” is a noun and “filiales” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #5,981
- “filiale” frequency rank
- #12,384
- “filiales” frequency rank
- 18365
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | filiale | filiales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Société appartenant à une société mère. | Féminin pluriel de filial. |
Same sound, different letters: filiale vs filiales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. filiale runs 7 letters (CVCVVCV) against filiales's 8 (CVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - filiale and filiales
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: filiale and filiales carry the same recorded pronunciation, \fi.ljal\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “filiale” sits inside “filiales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18365, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
filiale is recorded at frequency rank #5,981, classified as anoun, pronounced \fi.ljal\. filiales is at rank #12,384, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fi.ljal\.
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 18365, this pair ranks #378,701 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of filiale vs filiales
Shared letters: aefil. Private to "filiale": -. Private to "filiales": s.
"filiale" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV · "filiales" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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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 "filiale" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "filiales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #378,701 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "filiale" and "filiales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "faciales vs filiales". 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 #378,701 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.