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Which to use

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

#19,020
“filmée” frequency rank
#28,954
“filmées” frequency rank
47974
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature filmée filmées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de filmer. Participe passé féminin pluriel de filmer.

Same sound, different letters: filmée vs filmées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. filmée runs 6 letters (CVCCVV) against filmées's 7 (CVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
filmée
7 ch
filmées

Same sound, different spelling - filmée / filmées

This is the hard kind. filmée and filmées are pronounced identically (\fil.me\) and both work as averb. 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) - “filmée” sits inside “filmées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47974, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

filmée is recorded at frequency rank #19,020, classified as averb, pronounced \fil.me\. filmées is at rank #28,954, tagged as averb, pronounced \fil.me\.

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 47974, this pair ranks #182,671 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of filmée vs filmées

Shared letters: efilmé. Private to "filmée": -. Private to "filmées": s.

"filmée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV  ·  "filmées" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "filmée" for "filmées" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\fil.me\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "filmée" or "filmées"?
"filmée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,020 in our French list, against #28,954 for "filmées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "filmée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "filmées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #182,671 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "filmée" and "filmées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "figées vs filmées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #182,671 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