Which to use
“passible” and “passibles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,506
- “passible” frequency rank
- #34,662
- “passibles” frequency rank
- 52168
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | passible | passibles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui peut subir, qui a mérité de subir une peine. | Pluriel de passible. |
Same sound, different letters: passible vs passibles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. passible runs 8 letters (CVCCVCCV) against passibles's 9 (CVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - passible and passibles
This is the hard kind. passible and passibles are pronounced identically (\pa.sibl\) 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) - “passible” sits inside “passibles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52168, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
passible is recorded at frequency rank #17,506, classified as anadj, pronounced \pa.sibl\. passibles is at rank #34,662, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pa.sibl\.
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 52168, this pair ranks #149,652 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of passible vs passibles
Shared letters: abeilps. Private to "passible": -. Private to "passibles": -.
"passible" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV · "passibles" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "passible" and "passibles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "passible" vs "passibles" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "passible" / "passibles". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "passible" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "passibles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #149,652 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "passible" and "passibles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "passibles vs plausibles". 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 #149,652 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.