Which to use
“article” is a noun and “articulé” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #325
- “article” frequency rank
- #25,209
- “articulé” frequency rank
- 25534
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | article | articulé |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Phalange de la main ou du pied. | Qui présente une articulation. |
Where the eye mixes article and articulé
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: article vs articulé
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: article is \aʁ.tikl\ while articulé is \aʁ.ti.ky.le\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25534, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
article is recorded at frequency rank #325, classified as anoun, pronounced \aʁ.tikl\. articulé is at rank #25,209, tagged as anadj, pronounced \aʁ.ti.ky.le\.
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 25534, this pair ranks #340,333 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of article vs articulé
Shared letters: acilrt. Private to "article": e. Private to "articulé": ué.
"article" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV · "articulé" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- article ← aritcle · arrticle · artcile · articcle · articel · articlle · artilce · artticle
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "article" and "articulé" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "article" vs "articulé" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "article" and "articulé" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "article" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "articulé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #340,333 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "article" and "articulé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "articulé vs articulées". 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 #340,333 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.