Which to use
“intestinal” and “intestinales” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #31,560
- “intestinal” frequency rank
- #45,121
- “intestinales” frequency rank
- 76681
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | intestinal | intestinales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui appartient ou qui a rapport aux intestins. | Féminin pluriel de intestinal. |
Same sound, different letters: intestinal vs intestinales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. intestinal runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVCVC) against intestinales's 12 (VCCVCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - intestinal / intestinales
This is the hard kind. intestinal and intestinales are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.tɛs.ti.nal\) 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) - “intestinal” sits inside “intestinales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76681, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
intestinal is recorded at frequency rank #31,560, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛs.ti.nal\. intestinales is at rank #45,121, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛs.ti.nal\.
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 76681, this pair ranks #30,451 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of intestinal vs intestinales
Shared letters: aeilnst. Private to "intestinal": -. Private to "intestinales": -.
"intestinal" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVC · "intestinales" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- intestinal ← inetstinal · inntestinal · intesitnal · intesstinal · intestianl · intestinall · intestinla · intestinnal
- intestinales ← inetstinales · inntestinales · intesitnales · intesstinales · intestianles · intestinaels · intestinaless · intestinalles
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "intestinal" and "intestinales" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "intestinal" or "intestinales"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "intestinal" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "intestinales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #30,451 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "intestinal" and "intestinales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "intestinales vs intestines". 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 #30,451 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.