découpévsdégoûteWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: découpé is a adjective, dégoûte is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“découpé” is an adjective and “dégoûte” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#17,935
“découpé” frequency rank
#22,244
“dégoûte” frequency rank
40179
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature découpé dégoûte
Definition Qui est coupé en plusieurs parties. Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe dégoûter.

Letter map: découpé vs dégoûte

Shared letters muted; letters that set découpé and dégoûte apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. découpé and dégoûte follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
découpé
7 ch
dégoûte

Part-of-speech tell for découpé / dégoûte

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: découpé is anadjective and dégoûteaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40179, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

découpé is recorded at frequency rank #17,935, classified as anadj. dégoûte is at rank #22,244, tagged as averb, pronounced \de.ɡut\.

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 40179, this pair ranks #242,423 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of découpé vs dégoûte

Shared letters: doé. Private to "découpé": cpu. Private to "dégoûte": egtû.

"découpé" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV  ·  "dégoûte" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "découpé" and "dégoûte" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "découpé" is an adjective and "dégoûte" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "découpé" vs "dégoûte" - which ranks higher?
"découpé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,935 in our French list, against #22,244 for "dégoûte". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "découpé" and "dégoûte". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "découpé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "dégoûte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #242,423 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "découpé" and "dégoûte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dégoûte vs dérouter". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #242,423 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