Which to use
“incontrôlable” and “incontrôlables” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,897
- “incontrôlable” frequency rank
- #42,944
- “incontrôlables” frequency rank
- 65841
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | incontrôlable | incontrôlables |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui ne peut pas être contrôlé, vérifié. | Pluriel de incontrôlable. |
Same sound, different letters: incontrôlable vs incontrôlables
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 13 letters.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
This is the hard kind. incontrôlable and incontrôlables are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.kɔ̃.tʁo.labl\) 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) - “incontrôlable” sits inside “incontrôlables”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65841, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
incontrôlable is recorded at frequency rank #22,897, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.tʁo.labl\. incontrôlables is at rank #42,944, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.kɔ̃.tʁo.labl\.
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 65841, this pair ranks #70,533 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of incontrôlable vs incontrôlables
Shared letters: abceilnortô. Private to "incontrôlable": -. Private to "incontrôlables": s.
"incontrôlable" · 13 letters · shape VCCVCCCVCVCCV · "incontrôlables" · 14 letters · shape VCCVCCCVCVCCVC