Which to use
“maquillée” and “maquiller” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #36,041
- “maquillée” frequency rank
- #23,276
- “maquiller” frequency rank
- 59317
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | maquillée | maquiller |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de maquiller. | Farder ; recouvrir de fard. |
Same sound, different letters: maquillée vs maquiller
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. maquillée (CVCVVCCVV) and maquiller (CVCVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - maquillée and maquiller
This is the hard kind. maquillée and maquiller are pronounced identically (\ma.ki.je\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59317, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
maquillée is recorded at frequency rank #36,041, classified as averb, pronounced \ma.ki.je\. maquiller is at rank #23,276, tagged as averb, pronounced \ma.ki.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 59317, this pair ranks #103,828 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of maquillée vs maquiller
Shared letters: aeilmqu. Private to "maquillée": é. Private to "maquiller": r.
"maquillée" · 9 letters · shape CVCVVCCVV · "maquiller" · 9 letters · shape CVCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- maquiller ← amquiller · maqiuller · maqquiller · maquilelr · maquiler · maquillerr · maquillre · maquliler
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
"maquillée" and "maquiller" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "maquillée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "maquiller" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #103,828 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "maquillée" and "maquiller" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maquillée vs maquilleuse". 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 #103,828 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.