Which to use
“indulgent” and “indulgents” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #30,654
- “indulgent” frequency rank
- #48,601
- “indulgents” frequency rank
- 79255
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | indulgent | indulgents |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui pratique l’indulgence ; qui pardonne aisément les fautes ou les défauts. | Masculin pluriel de indulgent. |
Same sound, different letters: indulgent vs indulgents
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. indulgent runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVCC) against indulgents's 10 (VCCVCCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: indulgent vs indulgents
This is the hard kind. indulgent and indulgents are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.dyl.ʒɑ̃\) 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) - “indulgent” sits inside “indulgents”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 79255, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
indulgent is recorded at frequency rank #30,654, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.dyl.ʒɑ̃\. indulgents is at rank #48,601, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.dyl.ʒɑ̃\.
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 79255, this pair ranks #23,750 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of indulgent vs indulgents
Shared letters: degilntu. Private to "indulgent": -. Private to "indulgents": s.
"indulgent" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC · "indulgents" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- indulgent ← idnulgent · inddulgent · indlugent · induglent · indulegnt · indulgennt · indulgentt · indulgetn
- indulgents ← idnulgents · inddulgents · indlugents · induglents · indulegnts · indulgennts · indulgenst · indulgentss
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "indulgent" and "indulgents" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "indulgent" or "indulgents"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "indulgent" / "indulgents". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "indulgent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "indulgents" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #23,750 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "indulgent" and "indulgents" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "indigents vs indulgents". 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 #23,750 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.