envoyéesvsenvoyezConfusable pair

Quick tell: envoyées is a noun, envoyez is an intj, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“envoyées” is a noun and “envoyez” is an intj - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,763
“envoyées” frequency rank
#6,293
“envoyez” frequency rank
18056
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature envoyées envoyez
Definition Pluriel de envoyée. Ordre donné au cours de la cérémonie des couleurs à un ou plusieurs servants de hisser le drapeau national avec la drisse jusqu’en haut du mât des couleurs.

Same sound, different letters: envoyées vs envoyez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. envoyées runs 8 letters (VCCVVVVC) against envoyez's 7 (VCCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
envoyées
7 ch
envoyez

Ear matches; page differs - envoyées and envoyez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: envoyées and envoyez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ɑ̃.vwa.je\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anintj, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18056, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

envoyées is recorded at frequency rank #11,763, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɑ̃.vwa.je\. envoyez is at rank #6,293, tagged as anintj, pronounced \ɑ̃.vwa.je\.

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 18056, this pair ranks #380,208 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of envoyées vs envoyez

Shared letters: enovy. Private to "envoyées": sé. Private to "envoyez": z.

"envoyées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVVVC  ·  "envoyez" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • envoyez ← ennvoyez · enovyez · envoeyz · envoyezz · envoyyez · envoyze · envvoyez · envyoez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "envoyées" and "envoyez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "envoyées" is a noun and "envoyez" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "envoyées" or "envoyez"?
"envoyez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,293 in our French list, against #11,763 for "envoyées". 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 "envoyées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "envoyez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #380,208 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "envoyées" and "envoyez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "envoyais vs envoyées". 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 #380,208 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