Which to use
“affreuse” and “affreuses” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,198
- “affreuse” frequency rank
- #38,124
- “affreuses” frequency rank
- 57322
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affreuse | affreuses |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de affreux. | Féminin pluriel de affreux. |
Same sound, different letters: affreuse vs affreuses
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. affreuse runs 8 letters (VCCCVVCV) against affreuses's 9 (VCCCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: affreuse vs affreuses
This is the hard kind. affreuse and affreuses are pronounced identically (\a.fʁøz\) 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) - “affreuse” sits inside “affreuses”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57322, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
affreuse is recorded at frequency rank #19,198, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.fʁøz\. affreuses is at rank #38,124, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.fʁøz\.
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 57322, this pair ranks #115,746 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of affreuse vs affreuses
Shared letters: aefrsu. Private to "affreuse": -. Private to "affreuses": -.
"affreuse" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVVCV · "affreuses" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "affreuse" for "affreuses" ever safe?
Frequency check: "affreuse" vs "affreuses" - which ranks higher?
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 "affreuse" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "affreuses" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #115,746 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affreuse" and "affreuses" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affres vs affreuse". 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 #115,746 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.