Which to use
“moustique” and “moustiques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,769
- “moustique” frequency rank
- #13,011
- “moustiques” frequency rank
- 30780
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | moustique | moustiques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Insecte diptère de la famille des culicidés dont la femelle pique les animaux dont l’humain et leur pompe du sang. | Pluriel de moustique. |
Same sound, different letters: moustique vs moustiques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. moustique runs 9 letters (CVVCCVCVV) against moustiques's 10 (CVVCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: moustique vs moustiques
This is the hard kind. moustique and moustiques are pronounced identically (\mus.tik\) 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) - “moustique” sits inside “moustiques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30780, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
moustique is recorded at frequency rank #17,769, classified as anoun, pronounced \mus.tik\. moustiques is at rank #13,011, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mus.tik\.
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 30780, this pair ranks #308,036 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of moustique vs moustiques
Shared letters: eimoqstu. Private to "moustique": -. Private to "moustiques": -.
"moustique" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCVV · "moustiques" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- moustique ← mmoustique · mosutique · mousitque · mousstique · moustiqeu · moustiqque · moustiuqe · moustqiue
- moustiques ← mmoustiques · mosutiques · mousitques · mousstiques · moustiqeus · moustiqques · moustiquess · moustiquse
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "moustique" and "moustiques" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "moustique" or "moustiques" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "moustique" / "moustiques". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "moustique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "moustiques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #308,036 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "moustique" and "moustiques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "monastiques vs moustiques". 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 #308,036 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.