Which to use
“cutanée” and “cutanées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,223
- “cutanée” frequency rank
- #27,394
- “cutanées” frequency rank
- 49617
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cutanée | cutanées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de cutané. | Féminin pluriel de cutané. |
Same sound, different letters: cutanée vs cutanées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Homophone desk: cutanée vs cutanées
This is the hard kind. cutanée and cutanées are pronounced identically (\ky.ta.ne\) 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) - “cutanée” sits inside “cutanées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49617, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cutanée is recorded at frequency rank #22,223, classified as anadj, pronounced \ky.ta.ne\. cutanées is at rank #27,394, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ky.ta.ne\.
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 49617, this pair ranks #169,188 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of cutanée vs cutanées
Shared letters: acentué. Private to "cutanée": -. Private to "cutanées": s.
"cutanée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV · "cutanées" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "cutanée" / "cutanées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "cutanée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cutanées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #169,188 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cutanée" and "cutanées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cutanées vs cutanés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #169,188 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.