Which to use
“dissimulé” and “dissimulée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,409
- “dissimulé” frequency rank
- #28,917
- “dissimulée” frequency rank
- 46326
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | dissimulé | dissimulée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui ne laisse pas apercevoir ses sentiments, ses desseins. | Féminin singulier de dissimulé. |
Same sound, different letters: dissimulé vs dissimulée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. dissimulé runs 9 letters (CVCCVCVCV) against dissimulée's 10 (CVCCVCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: dissimulé vs dissimulée
This is the hard kind. dissimulé and dissimulée are pronounced identically (\di.si.my.le\) 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) - “dissimulé” sits inside “dissimulée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46326, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
dissimulé is recorded at frequency rank #17,409, classified as anadj, pronounced \di.si.my.le\. dissimulée is at rank #28,917, tagged as anadj, pronounced \di.si.my.le\.
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 46326, this pair ranks #195,852 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of dissimulé vs dissimulée
Shared letters: dilmsué. Private to "dissimulé": -. Private to "dissimulée": e.
"dissimulé" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCV · "dissimulée" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "dissimulé" and "dissimulée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "dissimulé" or "dissimulée" show up more?
What to do next
"dissimulé" and "dissimulée" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "dissimulé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "dissimulée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #195,852 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "dissimulé" and "dissimulée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dissimulée vs dissimulées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #195,852 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.