Which to use
“laissées” and “laisses” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,923
- “laissées” frequency rank
- #10,184
- “laisses” frequency rank
- 26107
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | laissées | laisses |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Fiente de certains animaux, notamment du loup. | Pluriel de laisse. |
Where the eye mixes laissées and laisses
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. laissées runs 8 letters (CVVCCVVC) against laisses's 7 (CVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: laissées vs laisses
A purely visual mix-up. laissées (\le.se\) and laisses (\lɛs\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26107, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
laissées is recorded at frequency rank #15,923, classified as anoun, pronounced \le.se\. laisses is at rank #10,184, tagged as anoun, pronounced \lɛs\.
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 26107, this pair ranks #337,066 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of laissées vs laisses
Shared letters: aeils. Private to "laissées": é. Private to "laisses": -.
"laissées" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC · "laisses" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- laisses ← alisses · laisess · laissess · laissse · lasises · llaisses
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "laissées" for "laisses" ever safe?
Frequency check: "laissées" vs "laisses" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "laissées" and "laisses" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "laissées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "laisses" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #337,066 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "laissées" and "laisses" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "laissées vs laisserez". 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 #337,066 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.