Which to use
“empiler” and “empilés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #41,266
- “empiler” frequency rank
- #46,138
- “empilés” frequency rank
- 87404
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | empiler | empilés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mettre en pile. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de empiler. |
Same sound, different letters: empiler vs empilés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - empiler / empilés
This is the hard kind. empiler and empilés are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.pi.le\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87404, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
empiler is recorded at frequency rank #41,266, classified as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.pi.le\. 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 87404, this pair ranks #8,331 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of empiler vs empilés
Shared letters: eilmp. Private to "empiler": r. Private to "empilés": sé.
"empiler" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC · "empilés" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- empiler ← emipler · emmpiler · empielr · empilerr · empiller · empilre · emplier · emppiler
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "empiler" and "empilés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "empiler" vs "empilés" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"empiler" and "empilés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "empiler" 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 #8,331 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "empiler" 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 #8,331 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.