Which to use
“notre” is a determiner and “noyé” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #114
- “notre” frequency rank
- #15,949
- “noyé” frequency rank
- 16063
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | notre | noyé |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du pluriel au singulier. Qui nous appartient. Plusieurs possesseurs (dont l’un est le locuteur) et un seul objet. | Personne qui se noie ou qui a péri par noyade. |
Where the eye mixes notre and noyé
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Visual trap between notre and noyé
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: notre is \nɔtʁ\ while noyé is \nwa.je\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (determiner vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16063, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
notre is recorded at frequency rank #114, classified as adet, pronounced \nɔtʁ\. noyé is at rank #15,949, tagged as anoun, pronounced \nwa.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 16063, this pair ranks #389,559 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of notre vs noyé
Shared letters: no. Private to "notre": ert. Private to "noyé": yé.
"notre" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "noyé" · 4 letters · shape CVVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- notre ← nnotre · norte · notrre · nottre · ntore · ontre
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "notre" for "noyé" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "notre" or "noyé" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "notre" and "noyé" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "notre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "noyé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #389,559 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "notre" and "noyé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "noués vs noyé". 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 #389,559 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.