Which to use
“foutaise” and “foutaises” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #36,850
- “foutaise” frequency rank
- #36,851
- “foutaises” frequency rank
- 73701
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | foutaise | foutaises |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Chose sans importance, sans utilité, sans intérêt, dénuée de sens. | Pluriel de foutaise. |
Same sound, different letters: foutaise vs foutaises
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. foutaise runs 8 letters (CVVCVVCV) against foutaises's 9 (CVVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - foutaise / foutaises
This is the hard kind. foutaise and foutaises are pronounced identically (\fu.tɛz\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “foutaise” sits inside “foutaises”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73701, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
foutaise is recorded at frequency rank #36,850, classified as anoun, pronounced \fu.tɛz\. foutaises is at rank #36,851, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fu.tɛz\.
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 73701, this pair ranks #39,574 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of foutaise vs foutaises
Shared letters: aefiostu. Private to "foutaise": -. Private to "foutaises": -.
"foutaise" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVVCV · "foutaises" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "foutaise" for "foutaises" ever safe?
Frequency check: "foutaise" vs "foutaises" - 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 "foutaise" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "foutaises" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #39,574 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "foutaise" and "foutaises" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fournaise vs foutaise". 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 #39,574 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.