Which to use
“lucide” and “lucides” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #13,000
- “lucide” frequency rank
- #33,764
- “lucides” frequency rank
- 46764
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | lucide | lucides |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui conçoit les choses clairement. | Pluriel de lucide. |
Same sound, different letters: lucide vs lucides
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. lucide runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against lucides's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - lucide and lucides
This is the hard kind. lucide and lucides are pronounced identically (\ly.sid\) 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) - “lucide” sits inside “lucides”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46764, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
lucide is recorded at frequency rank #13,000, classified as anadj, pronounced \ly.sid\. lucides is at rank #33,764, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ly.sid\.
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 46764, this pair ranks #192,282 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of lucide vs lucides
Shared letters: cdeilu. Private to "lucide": -. Private to "lucides": s.
"lucide" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "lucides" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "lucide" for "lucides" ever safe?
Frequency check: "lucide" vs "lucides" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "lucide" / "lucides". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "lucide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "lucides" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #192,282 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "lucide" and "lucides" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lucides vs Lucques". 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 #192,282 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.