louéesvsloyersWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“louées” and “loyers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#44,026
“louées” frequency rank
#7,723
“loyers” frequency rank
51749
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature louées loyers
Definition Pluriel de louée. Pluriel de loyer.

Where the eye mixes louées and loyers

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. louées (CVVVVC) and loyers (CVVVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
louées
6 ch
loyers

Visual trap between louées and loyers

A purely visual mix-up. louées (\lu.e\) and loyers (\lwa.je\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51749, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

louées is recorded at frequency rank #44,026, classified as anoun, pronounced \lu.e\. loyers is at rank #7,723, tagged as anoun, pronounced \lwa.je\.

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 51749, this pair ranks #152,753 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of louées vs loyers

Shared letters: elos. Private to "louées": ué. Private to "loyers": ry.

"louées" · 6 letters · shape CVVVVC  ·  "loyers" · 6 letters · shape CVVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • loyers ← lloyers · loeyrs · loyerrs · loyerss · loyesr · loyres · loyyers · lyoers

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "louées" for "loyers" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\lu.e\ versus \lwa.je\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "louées" or "loyers"?
"loyers" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,723 in our French list, against #44,026 for "louées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "louées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "loyers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #152,753 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "louées" and "loyers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "louées 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 #152,753 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