Which to use
“arrachée” and “arrachées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,487
- “arrachée” frequency rank
- #36,249
- “arrachées” frequency rank
- 58736
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | arrachée | arrachées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de arraché. | Féminin pluriel de arraché. |
Same sound, different letters: arrachée vs arrachées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. arrachée runs 8 letters (VCCVCCVV) against arrachées's 9 (VCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - arrachée / arrachées
This is the hard kind. arrachée and arrachées are pronounced identically (\a.ʁa.ʃe\) 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) - “arrachée” sits inside “arrachées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58736, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
arrachée is recorded at frequency rank #22,487, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ʁa.ʃe\. arrachées is at rank #36,249, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.ʁa.ʃe\.
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 58736, this pair ranks #107,240 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of arrachée vs arrachées
Shared letters: acehré. Private to "arrachée": -. Private to "arrachées": s.
"arrachée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV · "arrachées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "arrachée" and "arrachées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "arrachée" or "arrachées"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "arrachée" / "arrachées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "arrachée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "arrachées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #107,240 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "arrachée" and "arrachées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "arrachées vs arrangées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #107,240 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.