inspiréevsinspiréesConfusable pair

Quick tell: inspirée is a noun, inspirées is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“inspirée” is a noun and “inspirées” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,980
“inspirée” frequency rank
#16,394
“inspirées” frequency rank
24374
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature inspirée inspirées
Definition Femme inspirée (par Dieu, ou en matière littéraire). Féminin pluriel de inspiré.

Same sound, different letters: inspirée vs inspirées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. inspirée runs 8 letters (VCCCVCVV) against inspirées's 9 (VCCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
inspirée
9 ch
inspirées

Ear matches; page differs - inspirée and inspirées

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: inspirée and inspirées carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “inspirée” sits inside “inspirées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24374, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

inspirée is recorded at frequency rank #7,980, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃s.pi.ʁe\. inspirées is at rank #16,394, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃s.pi.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 24374, this pair ranks #346,974 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of inspirée vs inspirées

Shared letters: einprsé. Private to "inspirée": -. Private to "inspirées": -.

"inspirée" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVCVV  ·  "inspirées" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "inspirée" for "inspirées" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "inspirée" is a noun and "inspirées" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "inspirée" vs "inspirées" - which ranks higher?
"inspirée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,980 in our French list, against #16,394 for "inspirées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"inspirée" and "inspirées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "inspirée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "inspirées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #346,974 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "inspirée" and "inspirées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "insérées vs inspirées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #346,974 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