Which to use
“immigré” and “immigrés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,465
- “immigré” frequency rank
- #7,577
- “immigrés” frequency rank
- 28042
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | immigré | immigrés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Installé dans un autre pays que celui dont on est originaire. | Masculin pluriel de immigré. |
Same sound, different letters: immigré vs immigrés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. immigré runs 7 letters (VCCVCCV) against immigrés's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - immigré and immigrés
This is the hard kind. immigré and immigrés are pronounced identically (\i.mi.ɡʁe\) 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) - “immigré” sits inside “immigrés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28042, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
immigré is recorded at frequency rank #20,465, classified as anadj, pronounced \i.mi.ɡʁe\. immigrés is at rank #7,577, tagged as anadj, pronounced \i.mi.ɡʁe\.
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 28042, this pair ranks #325,247 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of immigré vs immigrés
Shared letters: gimré. Private to "immigré": -. Private to "immigrés": s.
"immigré" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV · "immigrés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "immigré" and "immigrés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "immigré" or "immigrés" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "immigré" / "immigrés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "immigré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "immigrés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #325,247 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "immigré" and "immigrés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "immigré vs immigrée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #325,247 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.