Which to use
“louée” and “louées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #25,724
- “louée” frequency rank
- #44,026
- “louées” frequency rank
- 69750
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | louée | louées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pratique traditionnelle au cours de laquelle les domestiques proposaient leurs services. Cet usage avait lieu à la Saint-Jean (24 juin) pour les travaux des champs et à la Saint-Martin (11 novembre) pour les travaux d'hiver et de printemps. | Pluriel de louée. |
Same sound, different letters: louée vs louées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. louée runs 5 letters (CVVVV) against louées's 6 (CVVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - louée / louées
This is the hard kind. louée and louées are pronounced identically (\lu.e\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “louée” sits inside “louées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69750, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
louée is recorded at frequency rank #25,724, classified as anoun, pronounced \lu.e\. louées is at rank #44,026, tagged as anoun, pronounced \lu.e\.
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 69750, this pair ranks #53,963 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of louée vs louées
Shared letters: eloué. Private to "louée": -. Private to "louées": s.
"louée" · 5 letters · shape CVVVV · "louées" · 6 letters · shape CVVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "louée" for "louées" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "louée" or "louées" show up more?
What to do next
"louée" and "louées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "louée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "louées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #53,963 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "louée" and "louées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "louées vs louvet". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #53,963 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.