Which to use
“vertige” and “vertiges” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,034
- “vertige” frequency rank
- #23,728
- “vertiges” frequency rank
- 39762
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | vertige | vertiges |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Tournoiement de tête, indisposition dans laquelle il semble que tout tourne. | Pluriel de vertige. |
Same sound, different letters: vertige vs vertiges
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. vertige runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against vertiges's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - vertige / vertiges
This is the hard kind. vertige and vertiges are pronounced identically (\vɛʁ.tiʒ\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “vertige” sits inside “vertiges”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39762, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
vertige is recorded at frequency rank #16,034, classified as anoun, pronounced \vɛʁ.tiʒ\. vertiges is at rank #23,728, tagged as anoun, pronounced \vɛʁ.tiʒ\.
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 39762, this pair ranks #245,592 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of vertige vs vertiges
Shared letters: egirtv. Private to "vertige": -. Private to "vertiges": s.
"vertige" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "vertiges" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "vertige" and "vertiges" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "vertige" or "vertiges" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "vertige" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "vertiges" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #245,592 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "vertige" and "vertiges" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "verges vs vertiges". 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 #245,592 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.