Which to use
“diminué” and “diminués” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,679
- “diminué” frequency rank
- #47,830
- “diminués” frequency rank
- 55509
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | diminué | diminués |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui a été rendu plus petit. | Masculin pluriel de diminué. |
Same sound, different letters: diminué vs diminués
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. diminué runs 7 letters (CVCVCVV) against diminués's 8 (CVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - diminué and diminués
This is the hard kind. diminué and diminués are pronounced identically (\di.mi.nɥe\) 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) - “diminué” sits inside “diminués”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55509, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
diminué is recorded at frequency rank #7,679, classified as anadj, pronounced \di.mi.nɥe\. diminués is at rank #47,830, tagged as anadj, pronounced \di.mi.nɥe\.
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 55509, this pair ranks #127,039 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of diminué vs diminués
Shared letters: dimnué. Private to "diminué": -. Private to "diminués": s.
"diminué" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV · "diminués" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "diminué" for "diminués" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "diminué" or "diminués" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "diminué" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "diminués" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #127,039 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "diminué" and "diminués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "diminués vs dominus". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #127,039 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.