Which to use
“feuilles” and “feuillet” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,717
- “feuilles” frequency rank
- #22,859
- “feuillet” frequency rank
- 25576
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | feuilles | feuillet |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de feuille. | Chaque partie d’une feuille de papier qui a été pliée ou coupée en deux, en quatre, en huit, etc., en vue d’y écrire, d’y imprimer ou d’y dessiner. |
Where the eye mixes feuilles and feuillet
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. feuilles and feuillet follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: feuilles vs feuillet
A purely visual mix-up. feuilles (\fœj\) and feuillet (\fœ.jɛ\) 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 a single letter - s in “feuilles” becomes t in “feuillet”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25576, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
feuilles is recorded at frequency rank #2,717, classified as anoun, pronounced \fœj\. feuillet is at rank #22,859, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fœ.jɛ\.
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 25576, this pair ranks #340,061 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of feuilles vs feuillet
Shared letters: efilu. Private to "feuilles": s. Private to "feuillet": t.
"feuilles" · 8 letters · shape CVVVCCVC · "feuillet" · 8 letters · shape CVVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "feuilles" and "feuillet" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "feuilles" vs "feuillet" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "feuilles" and "feuillet" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "feuilles" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "feuillet" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #340,061 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "feuilles" and "feuillet" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "feuillet vs fouillent". 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 #340,061 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.