Which to use
“encouragées” and “encourageons” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #43,919
- “encouragées” frequency rank
- #46,743
- “encourageons” frequency rank
- 90662
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | encouragées | encourageons |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de encourager. | Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de encourager. |
Where the eye mixes encouragées and encourageons
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. encouragées runs 11 letters (VCCVVCVCVVC) against encourageons's 12 (VCCVVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: encouragées vs encourageons
A purely visual mix-up. encouragées (\ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒe\) and encourageons (\ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒɔ̃\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 90662, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
encouragées is recorded at frequency rank #43,919, classified as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒe\. encourageons is at rank #46,743, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒɔ̃\.
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 90662, this pair ranks #4,580 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of encouragées vs encourageons
Shared letters: acegnorsu. Private to "encouragées": é. Private to "encourageons": -.
"encouragées" · 11 letters · shape VCCVVCVCVVC · "encourageons" · 12 letters · shape VCCVVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- encourageons ← ecnourageons · enccourageons · encoruageons · encouargeons · encouraegons · encouragenos · encourageonns · encourageonss
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "encouragées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "encourageons" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #4,580 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "encouragées" and "encourageons" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "encouragées vs encouragez". 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 #4,580 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.