Which to use
“laide” and “laides” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,520
- “laide” frequency rank
- #42,427
- “laides” frequency rank
- 60947
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | laide | laides |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de laid. | Féminin pluriel de laid. |
Same sound, different letters: laide vs laides
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. laide runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against laides's 6 (CVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - laide / laides
This is the hard kind. laide and laides are pronounced identically (\lɛd\) 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) - “laide” sits inside “laides”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60947, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
laide is recorded at frequency rank #18,520, classified as anadj, pronounced \lɛd\. laides is at rank #42,427, tagged as anadj, pronounced \lɛd\.
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 60947, this pair ranks #94,908 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of laide vs laides
Shared letters: adeil. Private to "laide": -. Private to "laides": s.
"laide" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "laides" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "laide" and "laides" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "laide" or "laides" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "laide" / "laides". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "laide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "laides" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #94,908 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "laide" and "laides" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "laides vs limes". 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 #94,908 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.