logéevslycéeWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: logée is a adjective, lycée is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#33,336
“logée” frequency rank
#1,482
“lycée” frequency rank
34818
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature logée lycée
Definition Féminin singulier de logé. Établissement public ou privé d’enseignement du second cycle du second degré en France. École d’enseignement secondaire (Belgique), école secondaire (Canada).

Where the eye mixes logée and lycée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. logée and lycée follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
logée
5 ch
lycée

Why the eye confuses logée with lycée

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: logée is \lɔ.ʒe\ while lycée is \li.se\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34818, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

logée is recorded at frequency rank #33,336, classified as anadj, pronounced \lɔ.ʒe\. lycée is at rank #1,482, tagged as anoun, pronounced \li.se\.

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 34818, this pair ranks #281,117 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of logée vs lycée

Shared letters: elé. Private to "logée": go. Private to "lycée": cy.

"logée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "lycée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "logée" for "lycée" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "logée" is an adjective and "lycée" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "logée" or "lycée" show up more?
"lycée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,482 in our French list, against #33,336 for "logée". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "logée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lycée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #281,117 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "logée" and "lycée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "logée vs login". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #281,117 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