allouéevsallouésTell them apart

Quick tell: allouée is a verb, alloués is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“allouée” is a verb and “alloués” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,237
“allouée” frequency rank
#24,096
“alloués” frequency rank
60333
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature allouée alloués
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe allouer. Pluriel de alloué.

Same sound, different letters: allouée vs alloués

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. allouée (VCCVVVV) and alloués (VCCVVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
allouée
7 ch
alloués

Homophone desk: allouée vs alloués

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: allouée and alloués carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.lwe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anoun, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by a single letter - e in “allouée” becomes s in “alloués”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60333, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

allouée is recorded at frequency rank #36,237, classified as averb, pronounced \a.lwe\. alloués is at rank #24,096, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.lwe\.

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 60333, this pair ranks #98,160 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of allouée vs alloués

Shared letters: aloué. Private to "allouée": e. Private to "alloués": s.

"allouée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVV  ·  "alloués" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "allouée" and "alloués" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "allouée" is a verb and "alloués" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "allouée" or "alloués" show up more?
"alloués" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,096 in our French list, against #36,237 for "allouée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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 "allouée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "alloués" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #98,160 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "allouée" and "alloués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "alloue vs allouée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #98,160 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list