hydraulique vs hydrauliques

Which to use

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

#10,336
“hydraulique” frequency rank: #19,861
“hydrauliques” frequency rank: 30197
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	hydraulique	hydrauliques
Definition	Qui est mû par un liquide, notamment de l’eau.	Pluriel de l’adjectif hydraulique.

Same sound, different letters: hydraulique vs hydrauliques

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. hydraulique runs 11 letters (CVCCVVCVCVV) against hydrauliques's 12 (CVCCVVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch

hydraulique

12 ch

hydrauliques

Ear matches; page differs - hydraulique and hydrauliques

This is the hard kind. hydraulique and hydrauliques are pronounced identically (\i.dʁo.lik\) 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) - “hydraulique” sits inside “hydrauliques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30197, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hydraulique is recorded at frequency rank #10,336, classified as anadj, pronounced \i.dʁo.lik\. hydrauliques is at rank #19,861, tagged as anadj, pronounced \i.dʁo.lik\.

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 30197, this pair ranks #311,898 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hydraulique vs hydrauliques

Shared letters: adehilqruy. Private to "hydraulique": -. Private to "hydrauliques": s.

"hydraulique" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVVCVCVV · "hydrauliques" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVVCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

hydraulique ← hdyraulique · hhydraulique · hydarulique · hyddraulique · hydraluique · hydrauilque · hydrauliqeu · hydrauliqque
hydrauliques ← hdyrauliques · hhydrauliques · hydaruliques · hyddrauliques · hydraluiques · hydrauilques · hydrauliqeus · hydrauliqques

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hydraulique" and "hydrauliques" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\i.dʁo.lik\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Frequency check: "hydraulique" vs "hydrauliques" - which ranks higher?

"hydraulique" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,336 in our French list, against #19,861 for "hydrauliques". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "hydraulique" / "hydrauliques". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

Full dictionary entry for "hydraulique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "hydrauliques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #311,898 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
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 #311,898 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.