emeryvsÉvryTell them apart

Quick tell: emery is a noun, Évry is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“emery” is a noun and “Évry” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,573
“emery” frequency rank
#44,279
“Évry” frequency rank
68852
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature emery Évry
Definition Émeri. Commune française, située dans le département de l’Yonne.

Letter map: emery vs Évry

Shared letters muted; letters that set emery and Évry apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. emery runs 5 letters (VCVCV) against Évry's 4 (VCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
emery
4 ch
Évry

Role in the sentence - emery and Évry

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: emery is anoun and Évryaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68852, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

emery is recorded at frequency rank #24,573, classified as anoun. Évry is at rank #44,279, tagged as aname, pronounced \e.vʁi\.

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 68852, this pair ranks #57,422 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of emery vs Évry

Shared letters: ry. Private to "emery": em. Private to "Évry": vé.

"emery" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV  ·  "Évry" · 4 letters · shape VCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • emery ← eemry · emerry · emeryy · emeyr · emmery · emrey · meery

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "emery" and "Évry" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "emery" is a noun and "Évry" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "emery" or "Évry" show up more?
"emery" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,573 in our French list, against #44,279 for "Évry". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "emery" and "Évry". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "emery" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Évry" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #57,422 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "emery" and "Évry" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ely vs Évry". 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 #57,422 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