Which to use
“employé” and “employés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,713
- “employé” frequency rank
- #1,701
- “employés” frequency rank
- 4414
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | employé | employés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est en usage, utilisé. | Masculin pluriel de employé. |
Same sound, different letters: employé vs employés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. employé runs 7 letters (VCCCVVV) against employés's 8 (VCCCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: employé vs employés
This is the hard kind. employé and employés are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.plwa.je\) 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) - “employé” sits inside “employés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 4414, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
employé is recorded at frequency rank #2,713, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.plwa.je\. employés is at rank #1,701, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.plwa.je\.
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 4414, this pair ranks #431,677 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of employé vs employés
Shared letters: elmopyé. Private to "employé": -. Private to "employés": s.
"employé" · 7 letters · shape VCCCVVV · "employés" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
"employé" and "employés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "employé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "employés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #431,677 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "employé" and "employés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "employé vs employez". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #431,677 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.