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

#35,318
“typographique” frequency rank
#43,711
“typographiques” frequency rank
79029
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature typographique typographiques
Definition Relatif à la typographie. Pluriel de typographique.

Same sound, different letters: typographique vs typographiques

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 13 letters. typographique runs 13 letters (CVCVCCVCCVCVV) against typographiques's 14 (CVCVCCVCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

13 ch
typographique
14 ch
typographiques

Ear matches; page differs - typographique and typographiques

This is the hard kind. typographique and typographiques are pronounced identically (\ti.pɔ.ɡʁa.fik\) 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) - “typographique” sits inside “typographiques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 79029, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

typographique is recorded at frequency rank #35,318, classified as anadj, pronounced \ti.pɔ.ɡʁa.fik\. typographiques is at rank #43,711, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ti.pɔ.ɡʁa.fik\.

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 79029, this pair ranks #24,228 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of typographique vs typographiques

Shared letters: aeghiopqrtuy. Private to "typographique": -. Private to "typographiques": s.

"typographique" · 13 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVCVV  ·  "typographiques" · 14 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • typographique ← tpyographique · ttypographique · tyopgraphique · typgoraphique · typogarphique · typoggraphique · typograhpique · typographhique
  • typographiques ← tpyographiques · ttypographiques · tyopgraphiques · typgoraphiques · typogarphiques · typoggraphiques · typograhpiques · typographhiques

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "typographique" and "typographiques" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ti.pɔ.ɡʁa.fik\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "typographique" vs "typographiques" - which ranks higher?
"typographique" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #35,318 in our French list, against #43,711 for "typographiques". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"typographique" and "typographiques" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "typographique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "typographiques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #24,228 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "typographique" and "typographiques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "topographiques vs typographiques". 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 #24,228 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