Which to use
“occupée” and “occupées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,269
- “occupée” frequency rank
- #16,196
- “occupées” frequency rank
- 21465
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | occupée | occupées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de occupé. | Féminin pluriel de occupé. |
Same sound, different letters: occupée vs occupées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. occupée runs 7 letters (VCCVCVV) against occupées's 8 (VCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - occupée / occupées
This is the hard kind. occupée and occupées 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) - “occupée” sits inside “occupées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21465, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
occupée is recorded at frequency rank #5,269, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɔ.ky.pe\. occupées is at rank #16,196, 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 21465, this pair ranks #363,029 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of occupée vs occupées
Shared letters: ceopué. Private to "occupée": -. Private to "occupées": s.
"occupée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV · "occupées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "occupée" for "occupées" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "occupée" or "occupées" 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 "occupée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "occupées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #363,029 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "occupée" and "occupées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "occupais vs occupées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #363,029 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.