choquéevschoquésTell them apart

Quick tell: choquée is a noun, choqués is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“choquée” is a noun and “choqués” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,572
“choquée” frequency rank
#18,958
“choqués” frequency rank
35530
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature choquée choqués
Definition Une personne choquée. Masculin pluriel de choqué.

Same sound, different letters: choquée vs choqués

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. choquée (CCVCVVV) and choqués (CCVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
choquée
7 ch
choqués

Homophone desk: choquée vs choqués

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: choquée and choqués carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ʃɔ.ke\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by a single letter - e in “choquée” becomes s in “choqués”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35530, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

choquée is recorded at frequency rank #16,572, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʃɔ.ke\. choqués is at rank #18,958, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʃɔ.ke\.

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 35530, this pair ranks #276,070 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of choquée vs choqués

Shared letters: choqué. Private to "choquée": e. Private to "choqués": s.

"choquée" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVV  ·  "choqués" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "choquée" and "choqués" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "choquée" is a noun and "choqués" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "choquée" or "choqués"?
"choquée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,572 in our French list, against #18,958 for "choqués". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "choquée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "choqués" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #276,070 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "choquée" and "choqués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "choquée vs claquée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #276,070 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