Which to use
“magique” and “magiques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,272
- “magique” frequency rank
- #10,352
- “magiques” frequency rank
- 13624
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | magique | magiques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Relatif à la magie. | Pluriel de magique. |
Same sound, different letters: magique vs magiques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. magique runs 7 letters (CVCVCVV) against magiques's 8 (CVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: magique vs magiques
This is the hard kind. magique and magiques are pronounced identically (\ma.ʒik\) 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) - “magique” sits inside “magiques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13624, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
magique is recorded at frequency rank #3,272, classified as anadj, pronounced \ma.ʒik\. magiques is at rank #10,352, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ma.ʒik\.
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 13624, this pair ranks #400,237 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of magique vs magiques
Shared letters: aegimqu. Private to "magique": -. Private to "magiques": s.
"magique" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV · "magiques" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "magique" for "magiques" ever safe?
Frequency check: "magique" vs "magiques" - which ranks higher?
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 "magique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "magiques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #400,237 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "magique" and "magiques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "magiques vs maniaques". 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 #400,237 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.