Which to use
“susceptible” and “susceptibles” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,505
- “susceptible” frequency rank
- #5,080
- “susceptibles” frequency rank
- 10585
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | susceptible | susceptibles |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est capable de recevoir certaines qualités, certaines impressions, certaines modifications. | Pluriel de susceptible. |
Same sound, different letters: susceptible vs susceptibles
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. susceptible runs 11 letters (CVCCVCCVCCV) against susceptibles's 12 (CVCCVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - susceptible / susceptibles
This is the hard kind. susceptible and susceptibles are pronounced identically (\sy.sɛp.tibl\) 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) - “susceptible” sits inside “susceptibles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10585, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
susceptible is recorded at frequency rank #5,505, classified as anadj, pronounced \sy.sɛp.tibl\. susceptibles is at rank #5,080, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sy.sɛp.tibl\.
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 10585, this pair ranks #412,410 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of susceptible vs susceptibles
Shared letters: bceilpstu. Private to "susceptible": -. Private to "susceptibles": -.
"susceptible" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCCV · "susceptibles" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- susceptible ← ssuceptible · ssusceptible · sucseptible · suscceptible · suscepitble · suscepptible · susceptbile · susceptibble
- susceptibles ← ssuceptibles · ssusceptibles · sucseptibles · suscceptibles · suscepitbles · suscepptibles · susceptbiles · susceptibbles
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "susceptible" and "susceptibles" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "susceptible" or "susceptibles" show up more?
What to do next
"susceptible" and "susceptibles" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "susceptible" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "susceptibles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #412,410 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 #412,410 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.