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“grammaticale” and “grammaticales” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#36,867
“grammaticale” frequency rank
#39,324
“grammaticales” frequency rank
76191
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature grammaticale grammaticales
Definition Féminin singulier de grammatical. Féminin pluriel de grammatical.

Same sound, different letters: grammaticale vs grammaticales

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters. grammaticale runs 12 letters (CCVCCVCVCVCV) against grammaticales's 13 (CCVCCVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch
grammaticale
13 ch
grammaticales

Ear matches; page differs - grammaticale and grammaticales

This is the hard kind. grammaticale and grammaticales are pronounced identically (\ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\) 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) - “grammaticale” sits inside “grammaticales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76191, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

grammaticale is recorded at frequency rank #36,867, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\. grammaticales is at rank #39,324, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\.

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 76191, this pair ranks #31,837 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of grammaticale vs grammaticales

Shared letters: acegilmrt. Private to "grammaticale": -. Private to "grammaticales": s.

"grammaticale" · 12 letters · shape CCVCCVCVCVCV  ·  "grammaticales" · 13 letters · shape CCVCCVCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • grammaticale ← garmmaticale · ggrammaticale · gramamticale · gramaticale · grammaitcale · grammatciale · grammatiacle · grammaticael
  • grammaticales ← garmmaticales · ggrammaticales · gramamticales · gramaticales · grammaitcales · grammatciales · grammatiacles · grammaticaels

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "grammaticale" and "grammaticales" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "grammaticale" or "grammaticales"?
"grammaticale" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,867 in our French list, against #39,324 for "grammaticales". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"grammaticale" and "grammaticales" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "grammaticale" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "grammaticales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #31,837 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "grammaticale" and "grammaticales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "grammatical vs grammaticales". 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 #31,837 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list