Which to use
“opaque” and “opaques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,689
- “opaque” frequency rank
- #31,159
- “opaques” frequency rank
- 47848
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | opaque | opaques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui n’est pas transparent, qui ne laisse pas passer la lumière. | Pluriel de opaque. |
Same sound, different letters: opaque vs opaques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - opaque and opaques
This is the hard kind. opaque and opaques are pronounced identically (\ɔ.pak\) 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) - “opaque” sits inside “opaques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47848, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
opaque is recorded at frequency rank #16,689, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɔ.pak\. opaques is at rank #31,159, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɔ.pak\.
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 47848, this pair ranks #183,671 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of opaque vs opaques
Shared letters: aeopqu. Private to "opaque": -. Private to "opaques": s.
"opaque" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVV · "opaques" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "opaque" and "opaques" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "opaque" vs "opaques" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"opaque" and "opaques" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "opaque" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "opaques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #183,671 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "opaque" and "opaques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "opaques vs orques". 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 #183,671 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.