Which to use
“émigré” and “émigrés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,212
- “émigré” frequency rank
- #21,213
- “émigrés” frequency rank
- 42425
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | émigré | émigrés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui a quitté son pays. | Masculin pluriel de émigré. |
Same sound, different letters: émigré vs émigrés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. émigré runs 6 letters (VCVCCV) against émigrés's 7 (VCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - émigré / émigrés
This is the hard kind. émigré and émigrés are pronounced identically (\e.mi.ɡʁe\) 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) - “émigré” sits inside “émigrés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42425, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
émigré is recorded at frequency rank #21,212, classified as anadj, pronounced \e.mi.ɡʁe\. émigrés is at rank #21,213, tagged as anadj, pronounced \e.mi.ɡʁe\.
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 42425, this pair ranks #225,695 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of émigré vs émigrés
Shared letters: gimré. Private to "émigré": -. Private to "émigrés": s.
"émigré" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV · "émigrés" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "émigré" and "émigrés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "émigré" vs "émigrés" - 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 "émigré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "émigrés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #225,695 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "émigré" and "émigrés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "émigrés vs érigées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #225,695 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.