Which to use
“écoulée” and “écoulées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,894
- “écoulée” frequency rank
- #26,932
- “écoulées” frequency rank
- 47826
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | écoulée | écoulées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de écoulé. | Féminin pluriel de écoulé. |
Same sound, different letters: écoulée vs écoulées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. écoulée runs 7 letters (VCVVCVV) against écoulées's 8 (VCVVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - écoulée and écoulées
This is the hard kind. écoulée and écoulées are pronounced identically (\e.ku.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) - “écoulée” sits inside “écoulées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47826, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
écoulée is recorded at frequency rank #20,894, classified as anadj, pronounced \e.ku.le\. écoulées is at rank #26,932, tagged as anadj, pronounced \e.ku.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 47826, this pair ranks #183,836 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of écoulée vs écoulées
Shared letters: celoué. Private to "écoulée": -. Private to "écoulées": s.
"écoulée" · 7 letters · shape VCVVCVV · "écoulées" · 8 letters · shape VCVVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "écoulée" and "écoulées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "écoulée" vs "écoulées" - which ranks higher?
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 "écoulée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "écoulées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #183,836 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "écoulée" and "écoulées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "écoulées vs écoutées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #183,836 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.