flagrantevsflagrantesConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#20,727
“flagrante” frequency rank
#48,532
“flagrantes” frequency rank
69259
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature flagrante flagrantes
Definition Féminin singulier de flagrant. Féminin pluriel de flagrant.

Same sound, different letters: flagrante vs flagrantes

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.

9 ch
flagrante
10 ch
flagrantes

Ear matches; page differs - flagrante and flagrantes

This is the hard kind. flagrante and flagrantes are pronounced identically (\fla.ɡʁɑ̃t\) 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) - “flagrante” sits inside “flagrantes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69259, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

flagrante is recorded at frequency rank #20,727, classified as anadj, pronounced \fla.ɡʁɑ̃t\. flagrantes is at rank #48,532, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fla.ɡʁɑ̃t\.

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 69259, this pair ranks #55,847 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of flagrante vs flagrantes

Shared letters: aefglnrt. Private to "flagrante": -. Private to "flagrantes": s.

"flagrante" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCVCCV  ·  "flagrantes" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • flagrantefalgrante · fflagrante · flagarnte · flaggrante · flagranet · flagrannte · flagrantte · flagratne
  • flagrantesfalgrantes · fflagrantes · flagarntes · flaggrantes · flagranets · flagranntes · flagrantess · flagrantse

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "flagrante" and "flagrantes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\fla.ɡʁɑ̃t\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "flagrante" vs "flagrantes" - which ranks higher?
"flagrante" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,727 in our French list, against #48,532 for "flagrantes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"flagrante" and "flagrantes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "flagrante" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "flagrantes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #55,847 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "flagrante" and "flagrantes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "flagrant vs flagrantes". 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 #55,847 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