Which to use
“indirect” and “indirectes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,059
- “indirect” frequency rank
- #26,407
- “indirectes” frequency rank
- 40466
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | indirect | indirectes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui ne conduit pas au but directement, qui est détourné. | Féminin pluriel de indirect. |
Same sound, different letters: indirect vs indirectes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - indirect / indirectes
This is the hard kind. indirect and indirectes are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.di.ʁɛkt\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “indirect” sits inside “indirectes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40466, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
indirect is recorded at frequency rank #14,059, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.di.ʁɛkt\. indirectes is at rank #26,407, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.di.ʁɛkt\.
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 40466, this pair ranks #240,277 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of indirect vs indirectes
Shared letters: cdeinrt. Private to "indirect": -. Private to "indirectes": s.
"indirect" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCC · "indirectes" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- indirect ← idnirect · inddirect · indierct · indircet · indirecct · indirectt · indiretc · indirrect
- indirectes ← idnirectes · inddirectes · indierctes · indircetes · indirecctes · indirecets · indirectess · indirectse
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "indirect" for "indirectes" ever safe?
Which is more common, "indirect" or "indirectes"?
After this comparison
"indirect" and "indirectes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "indirect" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "indirectes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #240,277 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "indirect" and "indirectes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "indirecte vs indirectes". 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 #240,277 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.