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“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.

9 ch
feuilleté
10 ch
feuilletée

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?
No. They are pronounced the same (\fœj.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "feuilleté" vs "feuilletée" - which ranks higher?
"feuilletée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40,270 in our French list, against #42,337 for "feuilleté". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list