Which to use
“moral” and “morales” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,839
- “moral” frequency rank
- #7,728
- “morales” frequency rank
- 10567
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | moral | morales |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui concerne les mœurs. | Féminin pluriel de moral. |
Same sound, different letters: moral vs morales
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. moral runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against morales's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - moral / morales
This is the hard kind. moral and morales are pronounced identically (\mɔ.ʁal\) 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) - “moral” sits inside “morales”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10567, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
moral is recorded at frequency rank #2,839, classified as anadj, pronounced \mɔ.ʁal\. morales is at rank #7,728, tagged as anadj, pronounced \mɔ.ʁal\.
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 10567, this pair ranks #412,481 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of moral vs morales
Shared letters: almor. Private to "moral": -. Private to "morales": es.
"moral" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "morales" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "moral" for "morales" ever safe?
Frequency check: "moral" vs "morales" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "moral" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "morales" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #412,481 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "moral" and "morales" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "morales vs morfler". 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 #412,481 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.