groupéevsgroupéesTell them apart

Which to use

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

#49,690
“groupée” frequency rank
#34,110
“groupées” frequency rank
83800
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature groupée groupées
Definition Féminin singulier de groupé. Féminin pluriel de groupé.

Same sound, different letters: groupée vs groupées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. groupée runs 7 letters (CCVVCVV) against groupées's 8 (CCVVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
groupée
8 ch
groupées

Same sound, different spelling - groupée / groupées

This is the hard kind. groupée and groupées are pronounced identically (\ɡʁu.pe\) 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) - “groupée” sits inside “groupées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 83800, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

groupée is recorded at frequency rank #49,690, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɡʁu.pe\. groupées is at rank #34,110, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɡʁu.pe\.

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 83800, this pair ranks #14,146 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of groupée vs groupées

Shared letters: egoprué. Private to "groupée": -. Private to "groupées": s.

"groupée" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCVV  ·  "groupées" · 8 letters · shape CCVVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "groupée" and "groupées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɡʁu.pe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "groupée" vs "groupées" - which ranks higher?
"groupées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #34,110 in our French list, against #49,690 for "groupée". 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 "groupée" / "groupées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "groupée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "groupées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #14,146 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "groupée" and "groupées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "groupée vs grouper". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #14,146 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