Which to use
“essayée” and “essayez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #39,789
- “essayée” frequency rank
- #3,913
- “essayez” frequency rank
- 43702
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | essayée | essayez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de essayer. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de essayer. |
Same sound, different letters: essayée vs essayez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. essayée (VCCVVVV) and essayez (VCCVVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - essayée / essayez
This is the hard kind. essayée and essayez are pronounced identically (\e.sɛ.je\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43702, 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\. essayez is at rank #3,913, tagged as averb, pronounced \e.sɛ.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 43702, this pair ranks #216,092 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of essayée vs essayez
Shared letters: aesy. Private to "essayée": é. Private to "essayez": z.
"essayée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVV · "essayez" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- essayez ← esasyez · esayez · essaeyz · essayezz · essayyez · essayze · essyaez · sesayez
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "essayée" and "essayez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "essayée" or "essayez"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "essayée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "essayez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #216,092 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "essayée" and "essayez" 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 #216,092 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.