Which to use
“noyé” and “noyer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,949
- “noyé” frequency rank
- #9,204
- “noyer” frequency rank
- 25153
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | noyé | noyer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Personne qui se noie ou qui a péri par noyade. | Nom usuel des arbres du genre Juglans, Grands arbres à feuilles caduques alternes imparipennées, aux petites fleurs femelles verdâtres réunies par deux à quatre et donnant des noix (drupes indéhiscentes). (note : Utilisé seul, en Europe francophone, le mot noyer désigne généralement Juglans regia ou noyer commun, noyer royal.) |
Same sound, different letters: noyé vs noyer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 3 letters. noyé runs 4 letters (CVVV) against noyer's 5 (CVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - noyé and noyer
This is the hard kind. noyé and noyer are pronounced identically (\nwa.je\) and both work as anoun. 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25153, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
noyé is recorded at frequency rank #15,949, classified as anoun, pronounced \nwa.je\. noyer is at rank #9,204, 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 25153, this pair ranks #342,485 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of noyé vs noyer
Shared letters: noy. Private to "noyé": é. Private to "noyer": er.
"noyé" · 4 letters · shape CVVV · "noyer" · 5 letters · shape CVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- noyer ← nnoyer · noeyr · noyerr · noyre · noyyer · nyoer · onyer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "noyé" and "noyer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "noyé" or "noyer"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "noyé" / "noyer". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "noyé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "noyer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #342,485 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "noyé" and "noyer" 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 #342,485 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.