fiscalevsfiscalesConfusable pair

Which to use

“fiscale” and “fiscales” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#3,611
“fiscale” frequency rank
#7,827
“fiscales” frequency rank
11438
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fiscale fiscales
Definition Féminin singulier de fiscal. Féminin pluriel de fiscal.

Same sound, different letters: fiscale vs fiscales

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. fiscale runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against fiscales's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
fiscale
8 ch
fiscales

Ear matches; page differs - fiscale and fiscales

This is the hard kind. fiscale and fiscales are pronounced identically (\fis.kal\) 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) - “fiscale” sits inside “fiscales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11438, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fiscale is recorded at frequency rank #3,611, classified as anadj, pronounced \fis.kal\. fiscales is at rank #7,827, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fis.kal\.

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 11438, this pair ranks #409,139 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of fiscale vs fiscales

Shared letters: acefils. Private to "fiscale": -. Private to "fiscales": -.

"fiscale" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "fiscales" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fiscale ← ffiscale · ficsale · fisacle · fiscael · fiscalle · fisccale · fisclae · fisscale
  • fiscales ← ffiscales · ficsales · fisacles · fiscaels · fiscaless · fiscalles · fiscalse · fisccales

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "fiscale" and "fiscales" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\fis.kal\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "fiscale" vs "fiscales" - which ranks higher?
"fiscale" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,611 in our French list, against #7,827 for "fiscales". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "fiscale" / "fiscales". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "fiscale" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fiscales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #409,139 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fiscale" and "fiscales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ficelé vs fiscale". 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 #409,139 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list