Which to use
“pleased” is an adjective and “pleaser” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #3,384
- “pleased” frequency rank
- #42,825
- “pleaser” frequency rank
- 46209
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pleased | pleaser |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Happy, content. | Someone or something which pleases. |
Letter map: pleased vs pleaser
Shared letters muted; letters that set pleased and pleaser apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. pleased and pleaser follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Role in the sentence - pleased and pleaser
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: pleased is anadjective and pleaseranoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “pleased” becomes r in “pleaser”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46209, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
pleased is recorded at frequency rank #3,384, classified as anadj, pronounced /pliːzd/. pleaser is at rank #42,825, tagged as anoun.
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 46209, this pair ranks #213,945 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of pleased vs pleaser
Shared letters: aelps. Private to "pleased": d. Private to "pleaser": r.
"pleased" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCVC · "pleaser" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "pleased" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "pleaser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #213,945 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "pleased" and "pleaser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pleaser vs pleated". 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 #213,945 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.