Which to use
“louée” and “lourde” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #25,724
- “louée” frequency rank
- #4,775
- “lourde” frequency rank
- 30499
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | louée | lourde |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Porte. |
Where the eye mixes louée and lourde
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Visual trap between louée and lourde
A purely visual mix-up. louée (\lu.e\) and lourde (\luʁd\) 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 30499, 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\. lourde is at rank #4,775, tagged as anoun, pronounced \luʁd\.
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 30499, this pair ranks #309,920 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of louée vs lourde
Shared letters: elou. Private to "louée": é. Private to "lourde": dr.
"louée" · 5 letters · shape CVVVV · "lourde" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- lourde ← llourde · lorude · loudre · lourdde · loured · lourrde · luorde · olurde
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "louée" for "lourde" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "louée" or "lourde" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "louée" and "lourde" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "louée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "lourde" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #309,920 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "louée" and "lourde" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "louée vs louvet". 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 #309,920 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.