dénudévsdénudéeConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#41,249
“dénudé” frequency rank
#43,399
“dénudée” frequency rank
84648
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature dénudé dénudée
Definition Qui n’est pas couvert ; qui est nu. Féminin singulier de dénudé.

Same sound, different letters: dénudé vs dénudée

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. dénudé runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against dénudée's 7 (CVCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
dénudé
7 ch
dénudée

Same sound, different spelling - dénudé / dénudée

This is the hard kind. dénudé and dénudée are pronounced identically (\de.ny.de\) 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) - “dénudé” sits inside “dénudée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 84648, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dénudé is recorded at frequency rank #41,249, classified as anadj, pronounced \de.ny.de\. dénudée is at rank #43,399, tagged as anadj, pronounced \de.ny.de\.

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 84648, this pair ranks #12,611 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of dénudé vs dénudée

Shared letters: dnué. Private to "dénudé": -. Private to "dénudée": e.

"dénudé" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "dénudée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "dénudé" for "dénudée" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\de.ny.de\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "dénudé" vs "dénudée" - which ranks higher?
"dénudé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #41,249 in our French list, against #43,399 for "dénudée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "dénudé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "dénudée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #12,611 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dénudé" and "dénudée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dénudée vs dundee". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #12,611 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