Which to use
“encouragées” and “encourager” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #43,919
- “encouragées” frequency rank
- #4,857
- “encourager” frequency rank
- 48776
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | encouragées | encourager |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de encourager. | Inciter à avoir du courage. |
Same sound, different letters: encouragées vs encourager
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - encouragées and encourager
This is the hard kind. encouragées and encourager are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒe\) 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48776, 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\. encourager is at rank #4,857, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.ku.ʁa.ʒe\.
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 48776, this pair ranks #176,121 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of encouragées vs encourager
Shared letters: acegnoru. Private to "encouragées": sé. Private to "encourager": -.
"encouragées" · 11 letters · shape VCCVVCVCVVC · "encourager" · 10 letters · shape VCCVVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- encourager ← ecnourager · enccourager · encoruager · encouarger · encouraegr · encouragerr · encouragger · encouragre
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "encouragées" for "encourager" ever safe?
Which is more common, "encouragées" or "encourager"?
What to do next
"encouragées" and "encourager" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "encouragées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "encourager" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #176,121 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "encouragées" and "encourager" 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 #176,121 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.