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

#39,350
“incorporée” frequency rank
#47,960
“incorporées” frequency rank
87310
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature incorporée incorporées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de incorporer. Participe passé féminin pluriel de incorporer.

Same sound, different letters: incorporée vs incorporées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. incorporée runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVCVV) against incorporées's 11 (VCCVCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
incorporée
11 ch
incorporées

Homophone desk: incorporée vs incorporées

This is the hard kind. incorporée and incorporées are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.kɔʁ.pɔ.ʁe\) and both work as averb. 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) - “incorporée” sits inside “incorporées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87310, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

incorporée is recorded at frequency rank #39,350, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.kɔʁ.pɔ.ʁe\. incorporées is at rank #47,960, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.kɔʁ.pɔ.ʁe\.

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 87310, this pair ranks #8,441 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of incorporée vs incorporées

Shared letters: ceinopré. Private to "incorporée": -. Private to "incorporées": s.

"incorporée" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVV  ·  "incorporées" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "incorporée" and "incorporées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛ̃.kɔʁ.pɔ.ʁe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "incorporée" or "incorporées"?
"incorporée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,350 in our French list, against #47,960 for "incorporées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "incorporée" / "incorporées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "incorporée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "incorporées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #8,441 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "incorporée" and "incorporées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "incorpore vs incorporées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #8,441 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