jouéesvsjoueursConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#26,072
“jouées” frequency rank
#945
“joueurs” frequency rank
27017
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature jouées joueurs
Definition Pluriel de jouée. Masculin pluriel de joueur.

Where the eye mixes jouées and joueurs

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. jouées runs 6 letters (CVVVVC) against joueurs's 7 (CVVVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
jouées
7 ch
joueurs

Visual trap between jouées and joueurs

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: jouées is \ʒwe\ while joueurs is \ʒwœʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27017, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

jouées is recorded at frequency rank #26,072, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʒwe\. joueurs is at rank #945, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʒwœʁ\.

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 27017, this pair ranks #331,518 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of jouées vs joueurs

Shared letters: ejosu. Private to "jouées": é. Private to "joueurs": r.

"jouées" · 6 letters · shape CVVVVC  ·  "joueurs" · 7 letters · shape CVVVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • joueursjjoueurs · joeuurs · jouerus · joueurrs · joueurss · joueusr · jouuers · juoeurs

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "jouées" and "joueurs" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "jouées" is a noun and "joueurs" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "jouées" or "joueurs" show up more?
"joueurs" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #945 in our French list, against #26,072 for "jouées". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "jouées" and "joueurs" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "jouées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "joueurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #331,518 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "jouées" and "joueurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "jouées vs jouis". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #331,518 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