Which to use
“friche” and “friches” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,735
- “friche” frequency rank
- #39,308
- “friches” frequency rank
- 66043
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | friche | friches |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Terrain inculte, soit qu’on ne l’ait jamais cultivé, soit que la culture en ait été interrompue. | Pluriel de friche. |
Same sound, different letters: friche vs friches
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. friche runs 6 letters (CCVCCV) against friches's 7 (CCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - friche / friches
This is the hard kind. friche and friches are pronounced identically (\fʁiʃ\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “friche” sits inside “friches”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66043, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
friche is recorded at frequency rank #26,735, classified as anoun, pronounced \fʁiʃ\. friches is at rank #39,308, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fʁiʃ\.
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 66043, this pair ranks #69,580 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of friche vs friches
Shared letters: cefhir. Private to "friche": -. Private to "friches": s.
"friche" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV · "friches" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "friche" and "friches" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "friche" vs "friches" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "friche" / "friches". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "friche" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "friches" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #69,580 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "friche" and "friches" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fichus vs friches". 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 #69,580 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.