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

#6,041
“typique” frequency rank
#13,928
“typiques” frequency rank
19969
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature typique typiques
Definition Qui concerne un type. Pluriel de typique.

Same sound, different letters: typique vs typiques

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. typique runs 7 letters (CVCVCVV) against typiques's 8 (CVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
typique
8 ch
typiques

Homophone desk: typique vs typiques

This is the hard kind. typique and typiques are pronounced identically (\ti.pik\) 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) - “typique” sits inside “typiques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19969, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

typique is recorded at frequency rank #6,041, classified as anadj, pronounced \ti.pik\. typiques is at rank #13,928, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ti.pik\.

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 19969, this pair ranks #370,614 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of typique vs typiques

Shared letters: eipqtuy. Private to "typique": -. Private to "typiques": s.

"typique" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "typiques" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • typiquetpyique · ttypique · tyipque · typiqeu · typiqque · typiuqe · typpique · typqiue
  • typiquestpyiques · ttypiques · tyipques · typiqeus · typiqques · typiquess · typiquse · typiuqes

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "typique" and "typiques" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ti.pik\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "typique" vs "typiques" - which ranks higher?
"typique" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,041 in our French list, against #13,928 for "typiques". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "typique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "typiques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #370,614 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "typique" and "typiques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "trique vs typique". 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 #370,614 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list