Which to use
“heurté” and “heurtée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,501
- “heurté” frequency rank
- #42,921
- “heurtée” frequency rank
- 61422
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | heurté | heurtée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qualifie un dessin où l’artiste a négligé de fondre les teintes avec soin et d’adoucir les contours, mais qui est large et vigoureux. | Féminin singulier de heurté. |
Same sound, different letters: heurté vs heurtée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. heurté runs 6 letters (CVVCCV) against heurtée's 7 (CVVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - heurté / heurtée
This is the hard kind. heurté and heurtée are pronounced identically (^((h aspiré))\œʁ.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) - “heurté” sits inside “heurtée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61422, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
heurté is recorded at frequency rank #18,501, classified as anadj, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\œʁ.te\. heurtée is at rank #42,921, tagged as anadj, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\œʁ.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 61422, this pair ranks #92,385 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of heurté vs heurtée
Shared letters: ehrtué. Private to "heurté": -. Private to "heurtée": -.
"heurté" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV · "heurtée" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
"heurté" and "heurtée" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "heurté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "heurtée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #92,385 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "heurté" and "heurtée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "heurt vs heurtée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #92,385 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.