Which to use
“encouragées” and “encouragez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #43,919
- “encouragées” frequency rank
- #48,492
- “encouragez” frequency rank
- 92411
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | encouragées | encouragez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de encourager. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de encourager. |
Same sound, different letters: encouragées vs encouragez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. encouragées runs 11 letters (VCCVVCVCVVC) against encouragez's 10 (VCCVVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: encouragées vs encouragez
This is the hard kind. encouragées and encouragez 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 92411, 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\. encouragez is at rank #48,492, 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 92411, this pair ranks #3,014 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of encouragées vs encouragez
Shared letters: acegnoru. Private to "encouragées": sé. Private to "encouragez": z.
"encouragées" · 11 letters · shape VCCVVCVCVVC · "encouragez" · 10 letters · shape VCCVVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- encouragez ← ecnouragez · enccouragez · encoruagez · encouargez · encouraegz · encouragezz · encouraggez · encouragze
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "encouragées" and "encouragez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "encouragées" or "encouragez"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "encouragées" / "encouragez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "encouragées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "encouragez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #3,014 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "encouragées" and "encouragez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "encouragées vs encourageons". 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 #3,014 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.