emailsvsempilésTell them apart

Quick tell: emails is a noun, empilés is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“emails” is a noun and “empilés” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#19,275
“emails” frequency rank
#46,138
“empilés” frequency rank
65413
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature emails empilés
Definition Pluriel de email. Participe passé masculin pluriel de empiler.

Where the eye mixes emails and empilés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

6 ch
emails
7 ch
empilés

Look-alike desk: emails vs empilés

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: emails is \i.mɛl\ while empilés is \ɑ̃.pi.le\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65413, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

emails is recorded at frequency rank #19,275, classified as anoun, pronounced \i.mɛl\. empilés is at rank #46,138, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.pi.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 65413, this pair ranks #72,449 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of emails vs empilés

Shared letters: eilms. Private to "emails": a. Private to "empilés": .

"emails" · 6 letters · shape VCVVCC  ·  "empilés" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • emailseamils · emaills · emailss · emaisl · emalis · emials · emmails · meails

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "emails" and "empilés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "emails" is a noun and "empilés" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "emails" or "empilés"?
"emails" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,275 in our French list, against #46,138 for "empilés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "emails" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "empilés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #72,449 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "emails" and "empilés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "édiles vs empilés". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #72,449 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list