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“endettée” and “endettés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#47,869
“endettée” frequency rank
#38,274
“endettés” frequency rank
86143
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature endettée endettés
Definition Féminin singulier de endetté. Masculin pluriel de endetté.

Same sound, different letters: endettée vs endettés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. endettée (VCCVCCVV) and endettés (VCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
endettée
8 ch
endettés

Same sound, different spelling - endettée / endettés

This is the hard kind. endettée and endettés are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.de.te\) and both work as anadjective. 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 “endettée” becomes s in “endettés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 86143, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

endettée is recorded at frequency rank #47,869, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.de.te\. endettés is at rank #38,274, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.de.te\.

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 86143, this pair ranks #10,173 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of endettée vs endettés

Shared letters: denté. Private to "endettée": -. Private to "endettés": s.

"endettée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV  ·  "endettés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "endettée" and "endettés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɑ̃.de.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "endettée" or "endettés"?
"endettés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,274 in our French list, against #47,869 for "endettée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "endettée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "endettés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #10,173 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "endettée" and "endettés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "endettée vs endetter". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #10,173 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list