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“articulées” and “articulés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#48,922
“articulées” frequency rank
#37,179
“articulés” frequency rank
86101
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature articulées articulés
Definition Féminin pluriel de articulé. Masculin pluriel de articulé.

Same sound, different letters: articulées vs articulés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. articulées runs 10 letters (VCCVCVCVVC) against articulés's 9 (VCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
articulées
9 ch
articulés

Same sound, different spelling - articulées / articulés

This is the hard kind. articulées and articulés are pronounced identically (\aʁ.ti.ky.le\) 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 86101, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

articulées is recorded at frequency rank #48,922, classified as anadj, pronounced \aʁ.ti.ky.le\. articulés is at rank #37,179, 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 86101, this pair ranks #10,225 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of articulées vs articulés

Shared letters: acilrstué. Private to "articulées": e. Private to "articulés": -.

"articulées" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCVVC  ·  "articulés" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "articulées" and "articulés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\aʁ.ti.ky.le\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "articulées" vs "articulés" - which ranks higher?
"articulés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #37,179 in our French list, against #48,922 for "articulées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "articulées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "articulés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #10,225 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "articulées" and "articulés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "articulées vs articulent". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #10,225 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