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

#18,485
“feuillage” frequency rank
#36,390
“feuillages” frequency rank
54875
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature feuillage feuillages
Definition L’ensemble des feuilles d’un ou de plusieurs arbres. Pluriel de feuillage.

Same sound, different letters: feuillage vs feuillages

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

9 ch
feuillage
10 ch
feuillages

Homophone desk: feuillage vs feuillages

This is the hard kind. feuillage and feuillages are pronounced identically (\fœ.jaʒ\) and both work as anoun. 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 extra letter(s) - “feuillage” sits inside “feuillages”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54875, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

feuillage is recorded at frequency rank #18,485, classified as anoun, pronounced \fœ.jaʒ\. feuillages is at rank #36,390, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fœ.jaʒ\.

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 54875, this pair ranks #131,098 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of feuillage vs feuillages

Shared letters: aefgilu. Private to "feuillage": -. Private to "feuillages": s.

"feuillage" · 9 letters · shape CVVVCCVCV  ·  "feuillages" · 10 letters · shape CVVVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • feuillage ← efuillage · feiullage · feuilage · feuilalge · feuillaeg · feuillagge · feuillgae · feulilage
  • feuillages ← efuillages · feiullages · feuilages · feuilalges · feuillaegs · feuillagess · feuillagges · feuillagse

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "feuillage" and "feuillages" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\fœ.jaʒ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "feuillage" vs "feuillages" - which ranks higher?
"feuillage" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,485 in our French list, against #36,390 for "feuillages". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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 "feuillage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "feuillages" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #131,098 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "feuillage" and "feuillages" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "feuillage vs feuilleté". 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 #131,098 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