bordées vs bordés, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#33,148
“bordées” frequency rank: #48,950
“bordés” frequency rank: 82098
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	bordées	bordés
Definition	Féminin pluriel de bordé.	Masculin pluriel de bordé.

Same sound, different letters: bordées vs bordés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. bordées runs 7 letters (CVCCVVC) against bordés's 6 (CVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch

bordées

6 ch

bordés

Same sound, different spelling - bordées / bordés

This is the hard kind. bordées and bordés are pronounced identically (\bɔʁ.de\) 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 82098, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

bordées is recorded at frequency rank #33,148, classified as anadj, pronounced \bɔʁ.de\. bordés is at rank #48,950, tagged as anadj, pronounced \bɔʁ.de\.

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 82098, this pair ranks #17,413 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of bordées vs bordés

Shared letters: bdorsé. Private to "bordées": e. Private to "bordés": -.

"bordées" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC · "bordés" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "bordées" and "bordés" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\bɔʁ.de\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Frequency check: "bordées" vs "bordés" - which ranks higher?

"bordées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,148 in our French list, against #48,950 for "bordés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "bordées" / "bordés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

Full dictionary entry for "bordées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "bordés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #17,413 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"bordées" and "bordés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bordés vs bourdes". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #17,413 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.