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“découpé” and “dévoué” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#17,935
“découpé” frequency rank
#17,942
“dévoué” frequency rank
35877
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature découpé dévoué
Definition Qui est coupé en plusieurs parties. Qui est disposé à tout faire pour être utile ou agréable à quelqu’un.

Letter map: découpé vs dévoué

Shared letters muted; letters that set découpé and dévoué apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. découpé runs 7 letters (CVCVVCV) against dévoué's 6 (CVCVVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
découpé
6 ch
dévoué

Spelling & dictionary notes on découpé vs dévoué

découpé and dévoué are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35877, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

découpé is recorded at frequency rank #17,935, classified as anadj. dévoué is at rank #17,942, tagged as anadj, pronounced \de.vwe\.

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 35877, this pair ranks #273,585 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of découpé vs dévoué

Shared letters: doué. Private to "découpé": cp. Private to "dévoué": v.

"découpé" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV  ·  "dévoué" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "découpé" and "dévoué" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary French text, does "découpé" or "dévoué" show up more?
"découpé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,935 in our French list, against #17,942 for "dévoué". 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 "dévoué". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "découpé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "dévoué" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #273,585 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "découpé" and "dévoué" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Devaux vs dévoué". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #273,585 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