Which to use
“louée” and “loutre” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #25,724
- “louée” frequency rank
- #32,056
- “loutre” frequency rank
- 57780
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | louée | loutre |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Espèce de mammifère carnivore de la famille des martres, grand à peu près comme un renard, mais plus bas de pattes, et à tête plate et obtuse, semi-aquatiques, qui vit au bord des rivières. |
Where the eye mixes louée and loutre
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. louée runs 5 letters (CVVVV) against loutre's 6 (CVVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: louée vs loutre
A purely visual mix-up. louée (\lu.e\) and loutre (\lutʁ\) 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 57780, 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\. loutre is at rank #32,056, tagged as anoun, pronounced \lutʁ\.
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 57780, this pair ranks #113,016 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of louée vs loutre
Shared letters: elou. Private to "louée": é. Private to "loutre": rt.
"louée" · 5 letters · shape CVVVV · "loutre" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- loutre ← lloutre · loture · lourte · louter · loutrre · louttre · luotre · olutre
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "louée" and "loutre" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "louée" vs "loutre" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "louée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "loutre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #113,016 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "louée" and "loutre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "loutre vs lure". 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 #113,016 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.