Which to use
“immédiate” and “immédiates” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,464
- “immédiate” frequency rank
- #21,041
- “immédiates” frequency rank
- 26505
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | immédiate | immédiates |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de immédiat. | Féminin pluriel de immédiat. |
Same sound, different letters: immédiate vs immédiates
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. immédiate runs 9 letters (VCCVCVVCV) against immédiates's 10 (VCCVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - immédiate and immédiates
This is the hard kind. immédiate and immédiates are pronounced identically (\i.me.djat\) 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) - “immédiate” sits inside “immédiates”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26505, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
immédiate is recorded at frequency rank #5,464, classified as anadj, pronounced \i.me.djat\. immédiates is at rank #21,041, tagged as anadj, pronounced \i.me.djat\.
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 26505, this pair ranks #334,583 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of immédiate vs immédiates
Shared letters: adeimté. Private to "immédiate": -. Private to "immédiates": s.
"immédiate" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVVCV · "immédiates" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "immédiate" for "immédiates" ever safe?
Frequency check: "immédiate" vs "immédiates" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "immédiate" / "immédiates". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "immédiate" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "immédiates" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #334,583 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "immédiate" and "immédiates" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "immédiates vs immédiateté". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #334,583 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.