Which to use
“mangue” and “mangues” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #27,121
- “mangue” frequency rank
- #46,283
- “mangues” frequency rank
- 73404
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mangue | mangues |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Fruit comestible tropical du manguier, de la famille des anacardiacées. C’est une drupe charnue à la chair jaune et sucrée, à la peau verte, jaune ou rouge et contenant un noyau plat et large sur lequel la chair adhère bien. | Pluriel de mangue. |
Same sound, different letters: mangue vs mangues
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. mangue runs 6 letters (CVCCVV) against mangues's 7 (CVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - mangue and mangues
This is the hard kind. mangue and mangues are pronounced identically (\mɑ̃ɡ\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “mangue” sits inside “mangues”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73404, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mangue is recorded at frequency rank #27,121, classified as anoun, pronounced \mɑ̃ɡ\. mangues is at rank #46,283, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɑ̃ɡ\.
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 73404, this pair ranks #40,588 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of mangue vs mangues
Shared letters: aegmnu. Private to "mangue": -. Private to "mangues": s.
"mangue" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV · "mangues" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "mangue" and "mangues" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "mangue" or "mangues"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "mangue" / "mangues". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "mangue" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mangues" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #40,588 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mangue" and "mangues" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mangues vs manies". 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 #40,588 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.