Which to use
“rigide” and “rigides” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,045
- “rigide” frequency rank
- #23,013
- “rigides” frequency rank
- 35058
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | rigide | rigides |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui ne plie pas, ne peut être déformé ni assoupli. | Pluriel de rigide. |
Same sound, different letters: rigide vs rigides
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - rigide and rigides
This is the hard kind. rigide and rigides are pronounced identically (\ʁi.ʒid\) 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) - “rigide” sits inside “rigides”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35058, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
rigide is recorded at frequency rank #12,045, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁi.ʒid\. rigides is at rank #23,013, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁi.ʒid\.
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 35058, this pair ranks #279,500 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of rigide vs rigides
Shared letters: degir. Private to "rigide": -. Private to "rigides": s.
"rigide" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "rigides" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "rigide" and "rigides" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "rigide" vs "rigides" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"rigide" and "rigides" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "rigide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "rigides" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #279,500 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "rigide" and "rigides" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "raides vs rigides". 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 #279,500 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.