Which to use
“écrasée” and “écrasées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,819
- “écrasée” frequency rank
- #39,113
- “écrasées” frequency rank
- 60932
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | écrasée | écrasées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Effondrement dans une galerie minière abandonnée | Pluriel de écrasée. |
Same sound, different letters: écrasée vs écrasées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
This is the hard kind. écrasée and écrasées are pronounced identically (\e.kʁa.ze\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “écrasée” sits inside “écrasées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60932, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
écrasée is recorded at frequency rank #21,819, classified as anoun, pronounced \e.kʁa.ze\. écrasées is at rank #39,113, tagged as anoun, pronounced \e.kʁa.ze\.
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 60932, this pair ranks #95,001 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of écrasée vs écrasées
Shared letters: acersé. Private to "écrasée": -. Private to "écrasées": -.
"écrasée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV · "écrasées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC