Which to use
“fusible” and “fusibles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,365
- “fusible” frequency rank
- #38,304
- “fusibles” frequency rank
- 67669
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | fusible | fusibles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui peut être fondu ou liquéfié. | Pluriel de fusible. |
Same sound, different letters: fusible vs fusibles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. fusible runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against fusibles's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - fusible / fusibles
This is the hard kind. fusible and fusibles are pronounced identically (\fy.zibl\) 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) - “fusible” sits inside “fusibles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67669, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
fusible is recorded at frequency rank #29,365, classified as anadj, pronounced \fy.zibl\. fusibles is at rank #38,304, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fy.zibl\.
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 67669, this pair ranks #62,394 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of fusible vs fusibles
Shared letters: befilsu. Private to "fusible": -. Private to "fusibles": -.
"fusible" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV · "fusibles" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "fusible" and "fusibles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "fusible" or "fusibles" show up more?
Useful next steps
"fusible" and "fusibles" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "fusible" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "fusibles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #62,394 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "fusible" and "fusibles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fusibles vs fusiller". 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 #62,394 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.