Which to use
“ordinaire” and “ordinaires” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,629
- “ordinaire” frequency rank
- #8,591
- “ordinaires” frequency rank
- 12220
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | ordinaire | ordinaires |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Commun ; habituel. | Pluriel de ordinaire. |
Same sound, different letters: ordinaire vs ordinaires
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. ordinaire runs 9 letters (VCCVCVVCV) against ordinaires's 10 (VCCVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - ordinaire / ordinaires
This is the hard kind. ordinaire and ordinaires are pronounced identically (\ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ\) 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) - “ordinaire” sits inside “ordinaires”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12220, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
ordinaire is recorded at frequency rank #3,629, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ\. ordinaires is at rank #8,591, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɔʁ.di.nɛʁ\.
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 12220, this pair ranks #406,117 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of ordinaire vs ordinaires
Shared letters: adeinor. Private to "ordinaire": -. Private to "ordinaires": s.
"ordinaire" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVVCV · "ordinaires" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- ordinaire ← odrinaire · orddinaire · ordianire · ordinaier · ordinairre · ordinarie · ordiniare · ordinnaire
- ordinaires ← odrinaires · orddinaires · ordianires · ordinaiers · ordinairess · ordinairres · ordinairse · ordinaries
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "ordinaire" and "ordinaires" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "ordinaire" or "ordinaires" show up more?
Useful next steps
"ordinaire" and "ordinaires" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "ordinaire" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "ordinaires" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #406,117 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "ordinaire" and "ordinaires" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ordinaires vs originaires". 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 #406,117 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.