Which to use
“grillée” and “grillées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,975
- “grillée” frequency rank
- #35,529
- “grillées” frequency rank
- 64504
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | grillée | grillées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de grillé. | Féminin pluriel de grillé. |
Same sound, different letters: grillée vs grillées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. grillée runs 7 letters (CCVCCVV) against grillées's 8 (CCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: grillée vs grillées
This is the hard kind. grillée and grillées are pronounced identically (\ɡʁi.je\) 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) - “grillée” sits inside “grillées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64504, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
grillée is recorded at frequency rank #28,975, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɡʁi.je\. grillées is at rank #35,529, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɡʁi.je\.
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 64504, this pair ranks #76,726 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of grillée vs grillées
Shared letters: egilré. Private to "grillée": -. Private to "grillées": s.
"grillée" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVV · "grillées" · 8 letters · shape CCVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "grillée" and "grillées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "grillée" or "grillées" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "grillée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "grillées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #76,726 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "grillée" and "grillées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "grillées vs grillons". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #76,726 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.