Which to use
“meilleure” is a noun and “meilleures” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #630
- “meilleure” frequency rank
- #1,961
- “meilleures” frequency rank
- 2591
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | meilleure | meilleures |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Celle qui est la mieux placée, la première ; qui est au maximum, au top. | Féminin pluriel de meilleur. |
Same sound, different letters: meilleure vs meilleures
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - meilleure and meilleures
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: meilleure and meilleures carry the same recorded pronunciation, \mɛ.jœʁ\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “meilleure” sits inside “meilleures”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2591, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
meilleure is recorded at frequency rank #630, classified as anoun, pronounced \mɛ.jœʁ\. meilleures is at rank #1,961, tagged as anadj, pronounced \mɛ.jœʁ\.
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 2591, this pair ranks #435,849 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of meilleure vs meilleures
Shared letters: eilmru. Private to "meilleure": -. Private to "meilleures": s.
"meilleure" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVVCV · "meilleures" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- meilleure ← emilleure · meilelure · meileure · meillerue · meilleuer · meilleurre · meilluere · melileure
- meilleures ← emilleures · meilelures · meileures · meillerues · meilleuers · meilleuress · meilleurres · meilleurse
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "meilleure" for "meilleures" ever safe?
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What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "meilleure" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "meilleures" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #435,849 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "meilleure" and "meilleures" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "meilleures vs meilleurs". 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 #435,849 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.