Which to use
“sympathique” and “sympathiques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,816
- “sympathique” frequency rank
- #17,017
- “sympathiques” frequency rank
- 22833
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sympathique | sympathiques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Relatif à la sympathie. | Pluriel de sympathique. |
Same sound, different letters: sympathique vs sympathiques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. sympathique runs 11 letters (CVCCVCCVCVV) against sympathiques's 12 (CVCCVCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - sympathique and sympathiques
This is the hard kind. sympathique and sympathiques are pronounced identically (\sɛ̃.pa.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) - “sympathique” sits inside “sympathiques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22833, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sympathique is recorded at frequency rank #5,816, classified as anadj, pronounced \sɛ̃.pa.tik\. sympathiques is at rank #17,017, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sɛ̃.pa.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 22833, this pair ranks #355,914 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of sympathique vs sympathiques
Shared letters: aehimpqstuy. Private to "sympathique": -. Private to "sympathiques": -.
"sympathique" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVV · "sympathiques" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- sympathique ← smypathique · ssympathique · symapthique · symmpathique · sympahtique · sympathhique · sympathiqeu · sympathiqque
- sympathiques ← smypathiques · ssympathiques · symapthiques · symmpathiques · sympahtiques · sympathhiques · sympathiqeus · sympathiqques
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "sympathique" and "sympathiques" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "sympathique" vs "sympathiques" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "sympathique" / "sympathiques". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "sympathique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "sympathiques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #355,914 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sympathique" and "sympathiques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sympathies vs sympathiques". 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 #355,914 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.