Which to use
“pages” is a noun and “payées” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #1,370
- “pages” frequency rank
- #12,016
- “payées” frequency rank
- 13386
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pages | payées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de page. | Féminin pluriel de payé. |
Where the eye mixes pages and payées
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: pages is \paʒ\ while payées is \pɛ.je\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13386, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
pages is recorded at frequency rank #1,370, classified as anoun, pronounced \paʒ\. payées is at rank #12,016, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pɛ.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 13386, this pair ranks #401,225 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of pages vs payées
Shared letters: aeps. Private to "pages": g. Private to "payées": yé.
"pages" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "payées" · 6 letters · shape CVVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- pages ← apges · paegs · pagess · pagges · pagse · pgaes · ppages