Which to use
“dessinée” and “dessinées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,374
- “dessinée” frequency rank
- #15,122
- “dessinées” frequency rank
- 23496
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | dessinée | dessinées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de dessiné. | Féminin pluriel de dessiné. |
Same sound, different letters: dessinée vs dessinées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. dessinée runs 8 letters (CVCCVCVV) against dessinées's 9 (CVCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - dessinée and dessinées
This is the hard kind. dessinée and dessinées are pronounced identically (\de.si.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) - “dessinée” sits inside “dessinées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23496, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
dessinée is recorded at frequency rank #8,374, classified as anadj, pronounced \de.si.ne\. dessinées is at rank #15,122, tagged as anadj, pronounced \de.si.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 23496, this pair ranks #352,174 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of dessinée vs dessinées
Shared letters: deinsé. Private to "dessinée": -. Private to "dessinées": -.
"dessinée" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVV · "dessinées" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "dessinée" and "dessinées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "dessinée" vs "dessinées" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "dessinée" / "dessinées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "dessinée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "dessinées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #352,174 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "dessinée" and "dessinées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dessinées vs dessinez". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #352,174 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.