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Which to use

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

#23,537
“enseignée” frequency rank
#33,673
“enseignées” frequency rank
57210
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature enseignée enseignées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de enseigner. Participe passé féminin pluriel de enseigner.

Same sound, different letters: enseignée vs enseignées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. enseignée runs 9 letters (VCCVVCCVV) against enseignées's 10 (VCCVVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
enseignée
10 ch
enseignées

Homophone desk: enseignée vs enseignées

This is the hard kind. enseignée and enseignées are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.se.ɲe\) 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) - “enseignée” sits inside “enseignées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57210, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

enseignée is recorded at frequency rank #23,537, classified as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.se.ɲe\. enseignées is at rank #33,673, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.se.ɲe\.

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 57210, this pair ranks #116,388 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of enseignée vs enseignées

Shared letters: eginsé. Private to "enseignée": -. Private to "enseignées": -.

"enseignée" · 9 letters · shape VCCVVCCVV  ·  "enseignées" · 10 letters · shape VCCVVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "enseignée" and "enseignées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɑ̃.se.ɲe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "enseignée" vs "enseignées" - which ranks higher?
"enseignée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,537 in our French list, against #33,673 for "enseignées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"enseignée" and "enseignées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "enseignée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "enseignées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #116,388 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "enseignée" and "enseignées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "enneigées vs enseignées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #116,388 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