Which to use
“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.
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "fraise" and "fraises" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "fraise" vs "fraises" - which ranks higher?
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.