Which to use
“feuilleté” and “feuilletée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #42,337
- “feuilleté” frequency rank
- #40,270
- “feuilletée” frequency rank
- 82607
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | feuilleté | feuilletée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qualifie un matériau en feuillets. | Féminin singulier de feuilleté. |
Same sound, different letters: feuilleté vs feuilletée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. feuilleté runs 9 letters (CVVVCCVCV) against feuilletée's 10 (CVVVCCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - feuilleté and feuilletée
This is the hard kind. feuilleté and feuilletée are pronounced identically (\fœj.te\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “feuilleté” sits inside “feuilletée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 82607, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
feuilleté is recorded at frequency rank #42,337, classified as anadj, pronounced \fœj.te\. feuilletée is at rank #40,270, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fœj.te\.
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 82607, this pair ranks #16,385 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of feuilleté vs feuilletée
Shared letters: efiltué. Private to "feuilleté": -. Private to "feuilletée": -.
"feuilleté" · 9 letters · shape CVVVCCVCV · "feuilletée" · 10 letters · shape CVVVCCVCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "feuilleté" and "feuilletée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "feuilleté" vs "feuilletée" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"feuilleté" and "feuilletée" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "feuilleté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "feuilletée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #16,385 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "feuilleté" and "feuilletée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "feuilleté vs feuilleter". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #16,385 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.