alliéevsalliéesWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: alliée is a noun, alliées is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“alliée” is a noun and “alliées” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#15,083
“alliée” frequency rank
#17,864
“alliées” frequency rank
32947
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature alliée alliées
Definition Femme ou organisation qui a rejoint une alliance. Féminin pluriel de allié.

Same sound, different letters: alliée vs alliées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.

6 ch
alliée
7 ch
alliées

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: alliée and alliées carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.lje\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “alliée” sits inside “alliées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32947, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

alliée is recorded at frequency rank #15,083, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.lje\. alliées is at rank #17,864, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.lje\.

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 32947, this pair ranks #293,892 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of alliée vs alliées

Shared letters: aeilé. Private to "alliée": -. Private to "alliées": s.

"alliée" · 6 letters · shape VCCVVV  ·  "alliées" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "alliée" and "alliées" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "alliée" is a noun and "alliées" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "alliée" or "alliées"?
"alliée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,083 in our French list, against #17,864 for "alliées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list