Which to use
“nocive” and “nocives” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #41,424
- “nocive” frequency rank
- #36,066
- “nocives” frequency rank
- 77490
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | nocive | nocives |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de nocif. | Féminin pluriel de nocif. |
Same sound, different letters: nocive vs nocives
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. nocive runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against nocives's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - nocive and nocives
This is the hard kind. nocive and nocives are pronounced identically (\nɔ.siv\) 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) - “nocive” sits inside “nocives”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77490, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
nocive is recorded at frequency rank #41,424, classified as anadj, pronounced \nɔ.siv\. nocives is at rank #36,066, tagged as anadj, pronounced \nɔ.siv\.
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 77490, this pair ranks #28,205 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of nocive vs nocives
Shared letters: ceinov. Private to "nocive": -. Private to "nocives": s.
"nocive" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "nocives" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "nocive" and "nocives" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "nocive" or "nocives" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "nocive" / "nocives". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "nocive" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "nocives" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #28,205 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "nocive" and "nocives" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "nocive vs nocivité". 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 #28,205 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.