Which to use
“fragile” and “fragiles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,134
- “fragile” frequency rank
- #8,394
- “fragiles” frequency rank
- 13528
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | fragile | fragiles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui se rompt ou se brise facilement. | Pluriel de fragile. |
Same sound, different letters: fragile vs fragiles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Homophone desk: fragile vs fragiles
This is the hard kind. fragile and fragiles are pronounced identically (\fʁa.ʒil\) 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) - “fragile” sits inside “fragiles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13528, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
fragile is recorded at frequency rank #5,134, classified as anadj, pronounced \fʁa.ʒil\. fragiles is at rank #8,394, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fʁa.ʒil\.
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 13528, this pair ranks #400,634 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of fragile vs fragiles
Shared letters: aefgilr. Private to "fragile": -. Private to "fragiles": s.
"fragile" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVCV · "fragiles" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "fragile" and "fragiles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "fragile" or "fragiles"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "fragile" / "fragiles". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "fragile" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "fragiles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #400,634 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "fragile" and "fragiles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fragiles vs fragilise". 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 #400,634 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.