Which to use
“girafe” and “girafes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,022
- “girafe” frequency rank
- #41,309
- “girafes” frequency rank
- 67331
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | girafe | girafes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mammifère ongulé artiodactyle et ruminant, originaire des savanes africaines, caractérisé notamment par un cou très allongé qui lui permet de dépasser souvent les cinq mètres. | Pluriel de girafe. |
Same sound, different letters: girafe vs girafes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. girafe runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against girafes's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: girafe vs girafes
This is the hard kind. girafe and girafes are pronounced identically (\ʒi.ʁaf\) 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) - “girafe” sits inside “girafes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67331, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
girafe is recorded at frequency rank #26,022, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʒi.ʁaf\. girafes is at rank #41,309, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʒi.ʁaf\.
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 67331, this pair ranks #63,879 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of girafe vs girafes
Shared letters: aefgir. Private to "girafe": -. Private to "girafes": s.
"girafe" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "girafes" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "girafe" and "girafes" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "girafe" or "girafes"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "girafe" / "girafes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "girafe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "girafes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #63,879 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "girafe" and "girafes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "girafes vs gradés". 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 #63,879 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.