Which to use
“dévastée” and “dévastées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,203
- “dévastée” frequency rank
- #48,476
- “dévastées” frequency rank
- 72679
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | dévastée | dévastées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de dévasté. | Féminin pluriel de dévasté. |
Same sound, different letters: dévastée vs dévastées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. dévastée runs 8 letters (CVCVCCVV) against dévastées's 9 (CVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: dévastée vs dévastées
This is the hard kind. dévastée and dévastées are pronounced identically (\de.vas.te\) 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) - “dévastée” sits inside “dévastées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72679, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
dévastée is recorded at frequency rank #24,203, classified as anadj, pronounced \de.vas.te\. dévastées is at rank #48,476, tagged as anadj, pronounced \de.vas.te\.
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 72679, this pair ranks #43,172 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of dévastée vs dévastées
Shared letters: adestvé. Private to "dévastée": -. Private to "dévastées": -.
"dévastée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV · "dévastées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "dévastée" for "dévastées" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "dévastée" or "dévastées" show up more?
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 "dévastée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "dévastées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #43,172 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "dévastée" and "dévastées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dépassées vs dévastées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #43,172 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.