Which to use
“obsédée” and “obsédés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #32,936
- “obsédée” frequency rank
- #30,284
- “obsédés” frequency rank
- 63220
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | obsédée | obsédés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Femme obsédée. | Pluriel de obsédé. |
Same sound, different letters: obsédée vs obsédés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
This is the hard kind. obsédée and obsédés are pronounced identically (\ɔb.se.de\) 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 a single letter - e in “obsédée” becomes s in “obsédés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63220, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
obsédée is recorded at frequency rank #32,936, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɔb.se.de\. obsédés is at rank #30,284, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɔb.se.de\.
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 63220, this pair ranks #83,125 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of obsédée vs obsédés
Shared letters: bdosé. Private to "obsédée": e. Private to "obsédés": -.
"obsédée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV · "obsédés" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC