facturervsfacturésWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: facturer is a verb, facturés is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“facturer” is a verb and “facturés” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,156
“facturer” frequency rank
#36,841
“facturés” frequency rank
66997
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature facturer facturés
Definition Indiquer, marquer sur une facture la marchandise livrée et son prix. Masculin pluriel de facturé.

Same sound, different letters: facturer vs facturés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. facturer and facturés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
facturer
8 ch
facturés

Same sound, different spelling - facturer / facturés

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: facturer and facturés carry the same recorded pronunciation, \fak.ty.ʁe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66997, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

facturer is recorded at frequency rank #30,156, classified as averb, pronounced \fak.ty.ʁe\. facturés is at rank #36,841, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fak.ty.ʁe\.

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 66997, this pair ranks #65,375 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of facturer vs facturés

Shared letters: acfrtu. Private to "facturer": e. Private to "facturés": .

"facturer" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC  ·  "facturés" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • facturerafcturer · faccturer · factruer · factturer · factuerr · facturerr · facturrer · facutrer

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "facturer" and "facturés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "facturer" is a verb and "facturés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "facturer" vs "facturés" - which ranks higher?
"facturer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,156 in our French list, against #36,841 for "facturés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "facturer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "facturés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #65,375 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "facturer" and "facturés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "factuel vs facturés". 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 #65,375 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