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

#22,956
“nourrie” frequency rank
#41,929
“nourries” frequency rank
64885
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature nourrie nourries
Definition Féminin singulier de nourri. Féminin pluriel de nourri.

Same sound, different letters: nourrie vs nourries

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. nourrie runs 7 letters (CVVCCVV) against nourries's 8 (CVVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
nourrie
8 ch
nourries

Homophone desk: nourrie vs nourries

This is the hard kind. nourrie and nourries are pronounced identically (\nu.ʁi\) 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) - “nourrie” sits inside “nourries”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64885, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

nourrie is recorded at frequency rank #22,956, classified as anadj, pronounced \nu.ʁi\. nourries is at rank #41,929, tagged as anadj, pronounced \nu.ʁi\.

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 64885, this pair ranks #74,894 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of nourrie vs nourries

Shared letters: einoru. Private to "nourrie": -. Private to "nourries": s.

"nourrie" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV  ·  "nourries" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • nourrie ← nnourrie · norurie · nourie · nourire · nourrei · nuorrie · onurrie
  • nourries ← nnourries · noruries · nouries · nourires · nourreis · nourriess · nourrise · nuorries

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "nourrie" and "nourries" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\nu.ʁi\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "nourrie" vs "nourries" - which ranks higher?
"nourrie" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,956 in our French list, against #41,929 for "nourries". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"nourrie" and "nourries" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "nourrie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "nourries" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #74,894 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "nourrie" and "nourries" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "nourrice vs nourries". 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 #74,894 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