Which to use
“mouillé” and “mouillée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,622
- “mouillé” frequency rank
- #22,007
- “mouillée” frequency rank
- 34629
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mouillé | mouillée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est imbibé ou recouvert de gouttes de liquide, généralement de l’eau ; humide. | Féminin singulier de mouillé. |
Same sound, different letters: mouillé vs mouillée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. mouillé runs 7 letters (CVVVCCV) against mouillée's 8 (CVVVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - mouillé / mouillée
This is the hard kind. mouillé and mouillée are pronounced identically (\mu.je\) 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 1 extra letter(s) - “mouillé” sits inside “mouillée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34629, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mouillé is recorded at frequency rank #12,622, classified as anadj, pronounced \mu.je\. mouillée is at rank #22,007, tagged as anadj, pronounced \mu.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 34629, this pair ranks #282,482 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of mouillé vs mouillée
Shared letters: ilmoué. Private to "mouillé": -. Private to "mouillée": e.
"mouillé" · 7 letters · shape CVVVCCV · "mouillée" · 8 letters · shape CVVVCCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "mouillé" and "mouillée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "mouillé" or "mouillée" show up more?
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 "mouillé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mouillée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #282,482 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mouillé" and "mouillée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mouillée vs mouillées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #282,482 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.