suicidaire vs suicidaires

Which to use

“suicidaire” and “suicidaires” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#16,489
“suicidaire” frequency rank: #25,827
“suicidaires” frequency rank: 42316
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	suicidaire	suicidaires
Definition	Qui exprime une intention de se suicider.	Pluriel de suicidaire.

Same sound, different letters: suicidaire vs suicidaires

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. suicidaire runs 10 letters (CVVCVCVVCV) against suicidaires's 11 (CVVCVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch

suicidaire

11 ch

suicidaires

Same sound, different spelling - suicidaire / suicidaires

This is the hard kind. suicidaire and suicidaires are pronounced identically (\sɥi.si.dɛʁ\) 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) - “suicidaire” sits inside “suicidaires”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42316, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

suicidaire is recorded at frequency rank #16,489, classified as anadj, pronounced \sɥi.si.dɛʁ\. suicidaires is at rank #25,827, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sɥi.si.dɛʁ\.

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 42316, this pair ranks #226,529 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of suicidaire vs suicidaires

Shared letters: acdeirsu. Private to "suicidaire": -. Private to "suicidaires": -.

"suicidaire" · 10 letters · shape CVVCVCVVCV · "suicidaires" · 11 letters · shape CVVCVCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

suicidaire ← siucidaire · ssuicidaire · suciidaire · suiccidaire · suicdiaire · suiciadire · suicidaier · suicidairre
suicidaires ← siucidaires · ssuicidaires · suciidaires · suiccidaires · suicdiaires · suiciadires · suicidaiers · suicidairess

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "suicidaire" and "suicidaires" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\sɥi.si.dɛʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

In ordinary French text, does "suicidaire" or "suicidaires" show up more?

"suicidaire" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,489 in our French list, against #25,827 for "suicidaires". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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 "suicidaire" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "suicidaires" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #226,529 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
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 #226,529 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.