Which to use
“proche” and “proches” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #810
- “proche” frequency rank
- #1,673
- “proches” frequency rank
- 2483
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | proche | proches |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est voisin, qui est près de quelqu’un, de quelque chose. | Pluriel de proche. |
Same sound, different letters: proche vs proches
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Homophone desk: proche vs proches
This is the hard kind. proche and proches are pronounced identically (\pʁɔʃ\) 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) - “proche” sits inside “proches”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2483, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
proche is recorded at frequency rank #810, classified as anadj, pronounced \pʁɔʃ\. proches is at rank #1,673, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pʁɔʃ\.
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 2483, this pair ranks #436,054 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of proche vs proches
Shared letters: cehopr. Private to "proche": -. Private to "proches": s.
"proche" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV · "proches" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "proche" and "proches" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "proche" or "proches" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "proche" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "proches" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #436,054 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "proche" and "proches" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "proches vs prouvés". 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 #436,054 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.