Which to use
“mouillée” and “mouillés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,007
- “mouillée” frequency rank
- #23,946
- “mouillés” frequency rank
- 45953
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mouillée | mouillés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de mouillé. | Masculin pluriel de mouillé. |
Same sound, different letters: mouillée vs mouillés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. mouillée (CVVVCCVV) and mouillés (CVVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Homophone desk: mouillée vs mouillés
This is the hard kind. mouillée and mouillés 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 a single letter - e in “mouillée” becomes s in “mouillés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45953, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mouillée is recorded at frequency rank #22,007, classified as anadj, pronounced \mu.je\. mouillés is at rank #23,946, 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 45953, this pair ranks #198,761 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of mouillée vs mouillés
Shared letters: ilmoué. Private to "mouillée": e. Private to "mouillés": s.
"mouillée" · 8 letters · shape CVVVCCVV · "mouillés" · 8 letters · shape CVVVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "mouillée" and "mouillés" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "mouillée" or "mouillés" show up more?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "mouillée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mouillés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #198,761 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mouillée" and "mouillés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mouillées vs mouillés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #198,761 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.