lésésvsloserWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: lésés is a verb, loser is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“lésés” is a verb and “loser” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,943
“lésés” frequency rank
#28,240
“loser” frequency rank
65183
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lésés loser
Definition Participe passé masculin pluriel de léser. Personne sans succès social ou professionnel. Perdant, raté dans la vie.

Where the eye mixes lésés and loser

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. lésés and loser follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
lésés
5 ch
loser

Visual trap between lésés and loser

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: lésés is \le.ze\ while loser is \lu.zœʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65183, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lésés is recorded at frequency rank #36,943, classified as averb, pronounced \le.ze\. loser is at rank #28,240, tagged as anoun, pronounced \lu.zœʁ\.

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 65183, this pair ranks #73,472 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of lésés vs loser

Shared letters: ls. Private to "lésés": é. Private to "loser": eor.

"lésés" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "loser" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • loser ← lloser · loesr · loserr · losre · losser · lsoer · olser

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "lésés" and "loser" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lésés" is a verb and "loser" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "lésés" or "loser" show up more?
"loser" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,240 in our French list, against #36,943 for "lésés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "lésés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "loser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #73,472 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lésés" and "loser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lésés vs leste". 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 #73,472 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