Which to use
“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.
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?
In ordinary French text, does "fabriquées" or "fabriquer" show up more?
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.