Which to use
“encourue” and “encourues” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #43,410
- “encourue” frequency rank
- #43,920
- “encourues” frequency rank
- 87330
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | encourue | encourues |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de encourir. | Participe passé féminin pluriel de encourir. |
Same sound, different letters: encourue vs encourues
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. encourue runs 8 letters (VCCVVCVV) against encourues's 9 (VCCVVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: encourue vs encourues
This is the hard kind. encourue and encourues are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\) 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 extra letter(s) - “encourue” sits inside “encourues”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87330, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
encourue is recorded at frequency rank #43,410, classified as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\. encourues is at rank #43,920, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.ku.ʁy\.
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 87330, this pair ranks #8,414 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of encourue vs encourues
Shared letters: cenoru. Private to "encourue": -. Private to "encourues": s.
"encourue" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVCVV · "encourues" · 9 letters · shape VCCVVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "encourue" and "encourues" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "encourue" or "encourues" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "encourue" / "encourues". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "encourue" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "encourues" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #8,414 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "encourue" and "encourues" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "encourir vs encourue". 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 #8,414 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.