Which to use
“frontal” and “frontales” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,732
- “frontal” frequency rank
- #49,103
- “frontales” frequency rank
- 69835
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | frontal | frontales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui a rapport ou qui appartient au front. | Féminin pluriel de frontal. |
Same sound, different letters: frontal vs frontales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. frontal runs 7 letters (CCVCCVC) against frontales's 9 (CCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: frontal vs frontales
This is the hard kind. frontal and frontales are pronounced identically (\fʁɔ̃.tal\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “frontal” sits inside “frontales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69835, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
frontal is recorded at frequency rank #20,732, classified as anadj, pronounced \fʁɔ̃.tal\. frontales is at rank #49,103, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fʁɔ̃.tal\.
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 69835, this pair ranks #53,626 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of frontal vs frontales
Shared letters: aflnort. Private to "frontal": -. Private to "frontales": es.
"frontal" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVC · "frontales" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "frontal" and "frontales" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "frontal" or "frontales" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "frontal" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "frontales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #53,626 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "frontal" and "frontales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "frontales vs frontalier". 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 #53,626 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.