intéresséevsintéresséesTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#8,869
“intéressée” frequency rank
#15,656
“intéressées” frequency rank
24525
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature intéressée intéressées
Definition Femme qui est intéressée. Féminin pluriel de intéressé.

Same sound, different letters: intéressée vs intéressées

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

10 ch
intéressée
11 ch
intéressées

Ear matches; page differs - intéressée and intéressées

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: intéressée and intéressées carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.se\. 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) - “intéressée” sits inside “intéressées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24525, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

intéressée is recorded at frequency rank #8,869, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.se\. intéressées is at rank #15,656, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.te.ʁɛ.se\.

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 24525, this pair ranks #346,122 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of intéressée vs intéressées

Shared letters: einrsté. Private to "intéressée": -. Private to "intéressées": -.

"intéressée" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVV  ·  "intéressées" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "intéressée" and "intéressées" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "intéressée" is a noun and "intéressées" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "intéressée" or "intéressées" show up more?
"intéressée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,869 in our French list, against #15,656 for "intéressées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "intéressée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "intéressées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #346,122 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "intéressée" and "intéressées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "intéressa vs intéressée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #346,122 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