Which to use
“fascine” and “fascinée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,623
- “fascine” frequency rank
- #35,509
- “fascinée” frequency rank
- 57132
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | fascine | fascinée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Fagot de petit bois. | Personne à qui un fascinateur a jeté le mauvais œil. |
Where the eye mixes fascine and fascinée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.
Why the eye confuses fascine with fascinée
A purely visual mix-up. fascine (\fa.sin\) and fascinée (\fa.si.ne\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57132, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
fascine is recorded at frequency rank #21,623, classified as anoun, pronounced \fa.sin\. fascinée is at rank #35,509, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fa.si.ne\.
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 57132, this pair ranks #116,869 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of fascine vs fascinée
Shared letters: acefins. Private to "fascine": -. Private to "fascinée": é.
"fascine" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "fascinée" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- fascine ← afscine · facsine · fasccine · fascien · fascinne · fascnie · fasicne · fasscine
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "fascine" for "fascinée" ever safe?
Frequency check: "fascine" vs "fascinée" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "fascine" and "fascinée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "fascine" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "fascinée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #116,869 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "fascine" and "fascinée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fascine vs Faustine". 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 #116,869 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.