Which to use
“choisie” and “choisies” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,275
- “choisie” frequency rank
- #13,748
- “choisies” frequency rank
- 20023
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | choisie | choisies |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de choisi. | Féminin pluriel de choisi. |
Same sound, different letters: choisie vs choisies
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. choisie runs 7 letters (CCVVCVV) against choisies's 8 (CCVVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - choisie and choisies
This is the hard kind. choisie and choisies are pronounced identically (\ʃwa.zi\) 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 extra letter(s) - “choisie” sits inside “choisies”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20023, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
choisie is recorded at frequency rank #6,275, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʃwa.zi\. choisies is at rank #13,748, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʃwa.zi\.
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 20023, this pair ranks #370,324 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of choisie vs choisies
Shared letters: cehios. Private to "choisie": -. Private to "choisies": -.
"choisie" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCVV · "choisies" · 8 letters · shape CCVVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "choisie" and "choisies" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "choisie" or "choisies" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "choisie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "choisies" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #370,324 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "choisie" and "choisies" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "choisies vs croises". 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 #370,324 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.