Which to use
“creusé” and “creusée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,749
- “creusé” frequency rank
- #28,504
- “creusée” frequency rank
- 40253
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | creusé | creusée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | (En parlant du visage ou de parties du visage) Empreint de creux, émacié. | Féminin singulier de creusé. |
Same sound, different letters: creusé vs creusée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. creusé runs 6 letters (CCVVCV) against creusée's 7 (CCVVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - creusé and creusée
This is the hard kind. creusé and creusée are pronounced identically (\kʁø.ze\) 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) - “creusé” sits inside “creusée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40253, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
creusé is recorded at frequency rank #11,749, classified as anadj, pronounced \kʁø.ze\. creusée is at rank #28,504, tagged as anadj, pronounced \kʁø.ze\.
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 40253, this pair ranks #241,865 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of creusé vs creusée
Shared letters: cersué. Private to "creusé": -. Private to "creusée": -.
"creusé" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCV · "creusée" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "creusé" and "creusée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "creusé" vs "creusée" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "creusé" / "creusée". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "creusé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "creusée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #241,865 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "creusé" and "creusée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "creusée vs creusot". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #241,865 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.