Which to use
“employer” is a verb and “employés” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #8,700
- “employer” frequency rank
- #1,701
- “employés” frequency rank
- 10401
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | employer | employés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Utiliser ; user ; se servir de. | Masculin pluriel de employé. |
Same sound, different letters: employer vs employés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. employer and employés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCCVVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Same sound, different spelling - employer / employés
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: employer and employés carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ɑ̃.plwa.je\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10401, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
employer is recorded at frequency rank #8,700, classified as averb, 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 10401, this pair ranks #413,129 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of employer vs employés
Shared letters: elmopy. Private to "employer": r. Private to "employés": sé.
"employer" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVVVC · "employés" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- employer ← emlpoyer · emmployer · emplloyer · emploeyr · employerr · employre · employyer · emplyoer
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "employer" for "employés" ever safe?
Which is more common, "employer" or "employés"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "employer" / "employés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "employer" 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 #413,129 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "employer" and "employés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "employer vs employez". 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 #413,129 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.