groupéevsgrouperWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: groupée is a adjective, grouper is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“groupée” is an adjective and “grouper” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,690
“groupée” frequency rank
#48,563
“grouper” frequency rank
98253
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature groupée grouper
Definition Féminin singulier de groupé. Mettre en groupe.

Same sound, different letters: groupée vs grouper

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. groupée (CCVVCVV) and grouper (CCVVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
groupée
7 ch
grouper

Ear matches; page differs - groupée and grouper

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: groupée and grouper carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ɡʁu.pe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 98253, 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\. grouper is at rank #48,563, tagged as averb, 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 98253, this pair ranks #160 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of groupée vs grouper

Shared letters: egopru. Private to "groupée": é. Private to "grouper": -.

"groupée" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCVV  ·  "grouper" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • grouper ← ggrouper · goruper · gropuer · grouepr · grouperr · groupper · groupre · grrouper

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "groupée" and "grouper" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "groupée" is an adjective and "grouper" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "groupée" or "grouper" show up more?
"grouper" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #48,563 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.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "groupée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "grouper" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #160 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "groupée" and "grouper" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "grouper vs Gruber". 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 #160 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