Which to use
“occupé” and “occupés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,025
- “occupé” frequency rank
- #7,211
- “occupés” frequency rank
- 10236
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | occupé | occupés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Où l’on a de l’occupation. | Masculin pluriel de occupé. |
Same sound, different letters: occupé vs occupés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. occupé runs 6 letters (VCCVCV) against occupés's 7 (VCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - occupé and occupés
This is the hard kind. occupé and occupés are pronounced identically (\ɔ.ky.pe\) 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) - “occupé” sits inside “occupés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10236, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
occupé is recorded at frequency rank #3,025, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɔ.ky.pe\. occupés is at rank #7,211, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɔ.ky.pe\.
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 10236, this pair ranks #413,735 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of occupé vs occupés
Shared letters: copué. Private to "occupé": -. Private to "occupés": s.
"occupé" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "occupés" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "occupé" and "occupés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "occupé" or "occupés" 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 "occupé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "occupés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #413,735 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "occupé" and "occupés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "occupais vs occupés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #413,735 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.