Which to use
“livre” and “livrée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #449
- “livre” frequency rank
- #10,026
- “livrée” frequency rank
- 10475
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | livre | livrée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Assemblage de feuilles manuscrites ou imprimées destinées à être lues. | Uniforme, tenue caractéristique d’une maison, que portent les domestiques. |
Where the eye mixes livre and livrée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. livre runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against livrée's 6 (CVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: livre vs livrée
A purely visual mix-up. livre (\livʁ\) and livrée (\li.vʁe\) 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 10475, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
livre is recorded at frequency rank #449, classified as anoun, pronounced \livʁ\. livrée is at rank #10,026, tagged as anoun, pronounced \li.vʁe\.
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 10475, this pair ranks #412,844 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of livre vs livrée
Shared letters: eilrv. Private to "livre": -. Private to "livrée": é.
"livre" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "livrée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- livre ← ilvre · lirve · liver · livrre · livvre · llivre · lvire
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "livre" and "livrée" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "livre" or "livrée" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "livre" and "livrée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "livre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "livrée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #412,844 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "livre" and "livrée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "livrée vs Livry". 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 #412,844 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.