Which to use
“essayée” and “essayes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #39,789
- “essayée” frequency rank
- #13,377
- “essayes” frequency rank
- 53166
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | essayée | essayes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de essayer. | Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de essayer. |
Where the eye mixes essayée and essayes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. essayée (VCCVVVV) and essayes (VCCVVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Look-alike desk: essayée vs essayes
A purely visual mix-up. essayée (\e.sɛ.je\) and essayes (\e.sɛj\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53166, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
essayée is recorded at frequency rank #39,789, classified as averb, pronounced \e.sɛ.je\. essayes is at rank #13,377, tagged as averb, pronounced \e.sɛj\.
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 53166, this pair ranks #142,610 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of essayée vs essayes
Shared letters: aesy. Private to "essayée": é. Private to "essayes": -.
"essayée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVV · "essayes" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- essayes ← esasyes · esayes · essaeys · essayess · essayse · essayyes · essyaes · sesayes
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "essayée" for "essayes" ever safe?
Frequency check: "essayée" vs "essayes" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "essayée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "essayes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #142,610 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "essayée" and "essayes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "essay vs essayée". 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 #142,610 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.