articulévsarticulerWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: articulé is a adjective, articuler is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“articulé” is an adjective and “articuler” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#25,209
“articulé” frequency rank
#28,059
“articuler” frequency rank
53268
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature articulé articuler
Definition Qui présente une articulation. Prononcer distinctement des sons.

Same sound, different letters: articulé vs articuler

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.

8 ch
articulé
9 ch
articuler

Ear matches; page differs - articulé and articuler

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: articulé and articuler carry the same recorded pronunciation, \aʁ.ti.ky.le\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53268, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

articulé is recorded at frequency rank #25,209, classified as anadj, pronounced \aʁ.ti.ky.le\. articuler is at rank #28,059, tagged as averb, 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 53268, this pair ranks #141,929 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of articulé vs articuler

Shared letters: acilrtu. Private to "articulé": é. Private to "articuler": e.

"articulé" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV  ·  "articuler" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • articuleraritculer · arrticuler · artciuler · articculer · articluer · articuelr · articulerr · articuller

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "articulé" and "articuler" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "articulé" is an adjective and "articuler" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "articulé" or "articuler" show up more?
"articulé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,209 in our French list, against #28,059 for "articuler". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"articulé" and "articuler" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "articulé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "articuler" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #141,929 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "articulé" and "articuler" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "articulées vs articuler". 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 #141,929 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