meubléevsmeublésConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#42,461
“meublée” frequency rank
#47,461
“meublés” frequency rank
89922
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature meublée meublés
Definition Féminin singulier de meublé. Masculin pluriel de meublé.

Same sound, different letters: meublée vs meublés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. meublée (CVVCCVV) and meublés (CVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
meublée
7 ch
meublés

Ear matches; page differs - meublée and meublés

This is the hard kind. meublée and meublés are pronounced identically (\mœ.ble\) and both work as anadjective. 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 - e in “meublée” becomes s in “meublés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 89922, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

meublée is recorded at frequency rank #42,461, classified as anadj, pronounced \mœ.ble\. meublés is at rank #47,461, tagged as anadj, pronounced \mœ.ble\.

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 89922, this pair ranks #5,293 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of meublée vs meublés

Shared letters: belmué. Private to "meublée": -. Private to "meublés": s.

"meublée" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV  ·  "meublés" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "meublée" and "meublés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\mœ.ble\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "meublée" or "meublés" show up more?
"meublée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #42,461 in our French list, against #47,461 for "meublés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "meublée" / "meublés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "meublée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "meublés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #5,293 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "meublée" and "meublés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "meubler vs meublés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #5,293 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