fraisevsfraisesWhat's the difference?

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

#14,940
“fraise” frequency rank
#12,579
“fraises” frequency rank
27519
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fraise fraises
Definition Faux-fruit du fraisier, réceptacle charnu de forme ovoïde oblongue plus ou moins arrondie et de couleur rouge à maturité (les « fruits » véritables au sens botanique sont les akènes qui recouvrent la peau de la fraise). Pluriel de fraise.

Same sound, different letters: fraise vs fraises

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

6 ch
fraise
7 ch
fraises

Homophone desk: fraise vs fraises

This is the hard kind. fraise and fraises are pronounced identically (\fʁɛz\) 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) - “fraise” sits inside “fraises”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27519, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fraise is recorded at frequency rank #14,940, classified as anoun, pronounced \fʁɛz\. fraises is at rank #12,579, tagged as anoun, pronounced \fʁɛz\.

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 27519, this pair ranks #328,446 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of fraise vs fraises

Shared letters: aefirs. Private to "fraise": -. Private to "fraises": -.

"fraise" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCV  ·  "fraises" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • fraisefarise · ffraise · fraies · frasie · friase · frraise · rfaise
  • fraisesfarises · ffraises · fraiess · fraisess · fraisses · frasies · friases · frraises

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "fraise" and "fraises" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\fʁɛz\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "fraise" vs "fraises" - which ranks higher?
"fraises" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,579 in our French list, against #14,940 for "fraise". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "fraise" / "fraises". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "fraise" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fraises" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #328,446 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fraise" and "fraises" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fraise vs frises". 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 #328,446 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