Which to use
“courgette” and “courgettes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #32,766
- “courgette” frequency rank
- #28,502
- “courgettes” frequency rank
- 61268
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | courgette | courgettes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Variété de plante de l’espèce Cucurbita pepo. | Pluriel de courgette. |
Same sound, different letters: courgette vs courgettes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. courgette runs 9 letters (CVVCCVCCV) against courgettes's 10 (CVVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: courgette vs courgettes
This is the hard kind. courgette and courgettes are pronounced identically (\kuʁ.ʒɛt\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “courgette” sits inside “courgettes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61268, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
courgette is recorded at frequency rank #32,766, classified as anoun, pronounced \kuʁ.ʒɛt\. courgettes is at rank #28,502, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kuʁ.ʒɛt\.
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 61268, this pair ranks #93,169 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of courgette vs courgettes
Shared letters: cegortu. Private to "courgette": -. Private to "courgettes": s.
"courgette" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCCV · "courgettes" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- courgette ← ccourgette · corugette · cougrette · couregtte · courgete · courgetet · courggette · courgtete
- courgettes ← ccourgettes · corugettes · cougrettes · couregttes · courgetes · courgetets · courgettess · courgettse
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "courgette" and "courgettes" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "courgette" or "courgettes" 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 "courgette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "courgettes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #93,169 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "courgette" and "courgettes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "couchette vs courgette". 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 #93,169 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.