Which to use
“unique” and “uniques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #990
- “unique” frequency rank
- #10,426
- “uniques” frequency rank
- 11416
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | unique | uniques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est seul en son genre. | Pluriel de unique. |
Same sound, different letters: unique vs uniques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. unique runs 6 letters (VCVCVV) against uniques's 7 (VCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: unique vs uniques
This is the hard kind. unique and uniques are pronounced identically (\y.nik\) 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) - “unique” sits inside “uniques”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11416, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
unique is recorded at frequency rank #990, classified as anadj, pronounced \y.nik\. uniques is at rank #10,426, tagged as anadj, pronounced \y.nik\.
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 11416, this pair ranks #409,224 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of unique vs uniques
Shared letters: einqu. Private to "unique": -. Private to "uniques": s.
"unique" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVV · "uniques" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "unique" and "uniques" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "unique" vs "uniques" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "unique" / "uniques". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "unique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "uniques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #409,224 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "unique" and "uniques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "unième vs unique". 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 #409,224 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.