Which to use
“agrégé” and “agrégés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,041
- “agrégé” frequency rank
- #47,713
- “agrégés” frequency rank
- 67754
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | agrégé | agrégés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Se dit des parties d’une plante agglomérées sur une petite surface. | Masculin pluriel de agrégé. |
Same sound, different letters: agrégé vs agrégés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. agrégé runs 6 letters (VCCVCV) against agrégés's 7 (VCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - agrégé and agrégés
This is the hard kind. agrégé and agrégés are pronounced identically (\a.ɡʁe.ʒe\) 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) - “agrégé” sits inside “agrégés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67754, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
agrégé is recorded at frequency rank #20,041, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ɡʁe.ʒe\. agrégés is at rank #47,713, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.ɡʁe.ʒe\.
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 67754, this pair ranks #62,041 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of agrégé vs agrégés
Shared letters: agré. Private to "agrégé": -. Private to "agrégés": s.
"agrégé" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "agrégés" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "agrégé" and "agrégés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "agrégé" or "agrégés"?
What to do next
"agrégé" and "agrégés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "agrégé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "agrégés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #62,041 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "agrégé" and "agrégés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agrégat vs agrégés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #62,041 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.