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

#21,948
“fréquentée” frequency rank
#30,170
“fréquentées” frequency rank
52118
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature fréquentée fréquentées
Definition Féminin singulier de fréquenté. Féminin pluriel de fréquenté.

Same sound, different letters: fréquentée vs fréquentées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. fréquentée runs 10 letters (CCVCVVCCVV) against fréquentées's 11 (CCVCVVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
fréquentée
11 ch
fréquentées

Homophone desk: fréquentée vs fréquentées

This is the hard kind. fréquentée and fréquentées are pronounced identically (\fʁe.kɑ̃.te\) 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 1 extra letter(s) - “fréquentée” sits inside “fréquentées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52118, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

fréquentée is recorded at frequency rank #21,948, classified as anadj, pronounced \fʁe.kɑ̃.te\. fréquentées is at rank #30,170, tagged as anadj, pronounced \fʁe.kɑ̃.te\.

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 52118, this pair ranks #150,042 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of fréquentée vs fréquentées

Shared letters: efnqrtué. Private to "fréquentée": -. Private to "fréquentées": s.

"fréquentée" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVV  ·  "fréquentées" · 11 letters · shape CCVCVVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "fréquentée" and "fréquentées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\fʁe.kɑ̃.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "fréquentée" vs "fréquentées" - which ranks higher?
"fréquentée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,948 in our French list, against #30,170 for "fréquentées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "fréquentée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "fréquentées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #150,042 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "fréquentée" and "fréquentées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "fréquentées vs fréquentent". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #150,042 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