Which to use
“figée” and “figés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #27,810
- “figée” frequency rank
- #42,338
- “figés” frequency rank
- 70148
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | figée | figés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de figé. | Masculin pluriel de figé. |
Same sound, different letters: figée vs figés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. figée (CVCVV) and figés (CVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Homophone desk: figée vs figés
This is the hard kind. figée and figés are pronounced identically (\fi.ʒe\) 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 a single letter - e in “figée” becomes s in “figés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70148, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
figée is recorded at frequency rank #27,810, classified as anadj, pronounced \fi.ʒe\. figés is at rank #42,338, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fi.ʒe\.
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 70148, this pair ranks #52,435 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of figée vs figés
Shared letters: fgié. Private to "figée": e. Private to "figés": s.
"figée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV · "figés" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "figée" vs "figés" - which ranks higher?
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 "figée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "figés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #52,435 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "figée" and "figés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "figés vs Finger". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #52,435 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.