Which to use
“sceptique” and “sceptiques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,149
- “sceptique” frequency rank
- #18,593
- “sceptiques” frequency rank
- 32742
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sceptique | sceptiques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qualifie les philosophes qui disent qu’il n’y a rien de certain. | Pluriel de sceptique. |
Same sound, different letters: sceptique vs sceptiques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. sceptique runs 9 letters (CCVCCVCVV) against sceptiques's 10 (CCVCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - sceptique and sceptiques
This is the hard kind. sceptique and sceptiques are pronounced identically (\sɛp.tik\) 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) - “sceptique” sits inside “sceptiques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32742, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sceptique is recorded at frequency rank #14,149, classified as anadj, pronounced \sɛp.tik\. sceptiques is at rank #18,593, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sɛp.tik\.
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 32742, this pair ranks #295,263 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of sceptique vs sceptiques
Shared letters: ceipqstu. Private to "sceptique": -. Private to "sceptiques": -.
"sceptique" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCVCVV · "sceptiques" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- sceptique ← cseptique · scceptique · scepitque · scepptique · sceptiqeu · sceptiqque · sceptiuqe · sceptqiue
- sceptiques ← cseptiques · scceptiques · scepitques · scepptiques · sceptiqeus · sceptiqques · sceptiquess · sceptiquse
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "sceptique" for "sceptiques" ever safe?
Frequency check: "sceptique" vs "sceptiques" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "sceptique" / "sceptiques". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "sceptique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sceptiques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #295,263 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sceptique" and "sceptiques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "scéniques vs sceptiques". 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 #295,263 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.