oubliéesvsoubliezWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: oubliées is a adjective, oubliez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“oubliées” is an adjective and “oubliez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#19,361
“oubliées” frequency rank
#3,554
“oubliez” frequency rank
22915
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature oubliées oubliez
Definition Féminin pluriel de oublié. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de oublier.

Same sound, different letters: oubliées vs oubliez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. oubliées runs 8 letters (VVCCVVVC) against oubliez's 7 (VVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
oubliées
7 ch
oubliez

Same sound, different spelling - oubliées / oubliez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: oubliées and oubliez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \u.bli.je\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22915, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

oubliées is recorded at frequency rank #19,361, classified as anadj, pronounced \u.bli.je\. oubliez is at rank #3,554, tagged as averb, pronounced \u.bli.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 22915, this pair ranks #355,392 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of oubliées vs oubliez

Shared letters: beilou. Private to "oubliées": . Private to "oubliez": z.

"oubliées" · 8 letters · shape VVCCVVVC  ·  "oubliez" · 7 letters · shape VVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • oubliezobuliez · oubbliez · oubilez · oubleiz · oubliezz · oublize · oublliez · oulbiez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "oubliées" and "oubliez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "oubliées" is an adjective and "oubliez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "oubliées" or "oubliez" show up more?
"oubliez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,554 in our French list, against #19,361 for "oubliées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "oubliées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "oubliez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #355,392 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "oubliées" and "oubliez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "oubliées vs oublieras". 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 #355,392 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