Which to use
“member” and “membre” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #47,454
- “member” frequency rank
- #1,034
- “membre” frequency rank
- 48488
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | member | membre |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Membre (élément d’un groupe humain). | Partie extérieure du corps d’un être humain ou d’un animal, distinguée de toutes les autres par quelque fonction particulière. Note d’usage : Se dit principalement des bras et des jambes ; ne se dit jamais de la tête. |
Where the eye mixes member and membre
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. member (CVCCVC) and membre (CVCCCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Look-alike desk: member vs membre
A purely visual mix-up. member (\ˈmɛm.bɚ\) and membre (\mɑ̃bʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ only by swapping two adjacent letters (er ↔ re) - a transposition the eye reads straight past. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48488, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
member is recorded at frequency rank #47,454, classified as anoun, pronounced \ˈmɛm.bɚ\. membre is at rank #1,034, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɑ̃bʁ\.
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 48488, this pair ranks #178,493 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of member vs membre
Shared letters: bemr. Private to "member": -. Private to "membre": -.
"member" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "membre" · 6 letters · shape CVCCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "member" and "membre" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "member" or "membre"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "member" and "membre" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "member" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "membre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #178,493 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "member" and "membre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Meier vs member". 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 #178,493 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.