Which to use
“indirecte” and “indirectes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,912
- “indirecte” frequency rank
- #26,407
- “indirectes” frequency rank
- 43319
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | indirecte | indirectes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de indirect. | Féminin pluriel de indirect. |
Same sound, different letters: indirecte vs indirectes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Homophone desk: indirecte vs indirectes
This is the hard kind. indirecte 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 1 extra letter(s) - “indirecte” sits inside “indirectes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43319, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
indirecte is recorded at frequency rank #16,912, 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 43319, this pair ranks #218,981 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of indirecte vs indirectes
Shared letters: cdeinrt. Private to "indirecte": -. Private to "indirectes": s.
"indirecte" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCCV · "indirectes" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- indirecte ← idnirecte · inddirecte · indiercte · indircete · indireccte · indirecet · indirectte · indiretce
- indirectes ← idnirectes · inddirectes · indierctes · indircetes · indirecctes · indirecets · indirectess · indirectse
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "indirecte" for "indirectes" ever safe?
Frequency check: "indirecte" vs "indirectes" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"indirecte" and "indirectes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "indirecte" 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 #218,981 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "indirecte" and "indirectes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "indigeste vs indirecte". 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 #218,981 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.