Which to use
“carré” and “carrées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,386
- “carré” frequency rank
- #24,510
- “carrées” frequency rank
- 27896
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | carré | carrées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | En forme de rectangle dont les côtés sont tous égaux. | Féminin pluriel de carré. |
Same sound, different letters: carré vs carrées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. carré runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against carrées's 7 (CVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - carré and carrées
This is the hard kind. carré and carrées are pronounced identically (\ka.ʁe\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “carré” sits inside “carrées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27896, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
carré is recorded at frequency rank #3,386, classified as anadj, pronounced \ka.ʁe\. carrées is at rank #24,510, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ka.ʁe\.
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 27896, this pair ranks #326,088 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of carré vs carrées
Shared letters: acré. Private to "carré": -. Private to "carrées": es.
"carré" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "carrées" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "carré" and "carrées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "carré" or "carrées"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "carré" / "carrées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "carré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "carrées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #326,088 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "carré" and "carrées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "carrées vs carrez". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #326,088 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.