Which to use
“encourue” and “encourus” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #43,410
- “encourue” frequency rank
- #35,495
- “encourus” frequency rank
- 78905
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | encourue | encourus |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de encourir. | Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe encourir. |
Same sound, different letters: encourue vs encourus
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. encourue (VCCVVCVV) and encourus (VCCVVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - encourue and encourus
This is the hard kind. encourue and encourus 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 a single letter - e in “encourue” becomes s in “encourus”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 78905, 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\. encourus is at rank #35,495, 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 78905, this pair ranks #24,573 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of encourue vs encourus
Shared letters: cenoru. Private to "encourue": -. Private to "encourus": s.
"encourue" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVCVV · "encourus" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "encourue" and "encourus" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "encourue" or "encourus" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "encourue" / "encourus". 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 "encourus" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #24,573 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "encourue" and "encourus" 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 #24,573 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.