Which to use
“louer” and “louez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,955
- “louer” frequency rank
- #37,896
- “louez” frequency rank
- 42851
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | louer | louez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Donner à louage ou à loyer. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de louer. |
Same sound, different letters: louer vs louez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. louer and louez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Homophone desk: louer vs louez
This is the hard kind. louer and louez are pronounced identically (\lwe\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - r in “louer” becomes z in “louez”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42851, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
louer is recorded at frequency rank #4,955, classified as averb, pronounced \lwe\. louez is at rank #37,896, tagged as averb, pronounced \lwe\.
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 42851, this pair ranks #222,444 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of louer vs louez
Shared letters: elou. Private to "louer": r. Private to "louez": z.
"louer" · 5 letters · shape CVVVC · "louez" · 5 letters · shape CVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "louer" for "louez" ever safe?
Which is more common, "louer" or "louez"?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "louer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "louez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #222,444 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "louer" and "louez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "louez 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 #222,444 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.