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

#16,619
“fabriquées” frequency rank
#6,085
“fabriquer” frequency rank
22704
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fabriquées fabriquer
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel de fabriquer. Exécuter ou faire exécuter certains ouvrages suivant les procédés d’un art mécanique, en atelier ou en usine.

Same sound, different letters: fabriquées vs fabriquer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. fabriquées runs 10 letters (CVCCVCVVVC) against fabriquer's 9 (CVCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
fabriquées
9 ch
fabriquer

Same sound, different spelling - fabriquées / fabriquer

This is the hard kind. fabriquées and fabriquer are pronounced identically (\fa.bʁi.ke\) 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22704, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fabriquées is recorded at frequency rank #16,619, classified as averb, pronounced \fa.bʁi.ke\. fabriquer is at rank #6,085, tagged as averb, pronounced \fa.bʁi.ke\.

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 22704, this pair ranks #356,589 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of fabriquées vs fabriquer

Shared letters: abefiqru. Private to "fabriquées": sé. Private to "fabriquer": -.

"fabriquées" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVVVC  ·  "fabriquer" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fabriquer ← afbriquer · fabbriquer · fabirquer · fabriqeur · fabriqquer · fabriquerr · fabriqure · fabriuqer

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "fabriquées" and "fabriquer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\fa.bʁi.ke\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "fabriquées" or "fabriquer" show up more?
"fabriquer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,085 in our French list, against #16,619 for "fabriquées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "fabriquées" / "fabriquer". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "fabriquées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fabriquer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #356,589 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fabriquées" and "fabriquer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fabriquées vs fabriquent". 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 #356,589 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