Which to use
“pavée” and “pavie” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #36,525
- “pavée” frequency rank
- #32,518
- “pavie” frequency rank
- 69043
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pavée | pavie |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Synonyme de digitale pourpre ou pourprée, Digitalis purpurea, plante de la famille des scrofulariacées. | Sorte de pêche dont la chair est adhérente au noyau. |
Where the eye mixes pavée and pavie
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. pavée and pavie follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses pavée with pavie
A purely visual mix-up. pavée (\pa.ve\) and pavie (\pa.vi\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - é in “pavée” becomes i in “pavie”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69043, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
pavée is recorded at frequency rank #36,525, classified as anoun, pronounced \pa.ve\. pavie is at rank #32,518, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pa.vi\.
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 69043, this pair ranks #56,705 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of pavée vs pavie
Shared letters: aepv. Private to "pavée": é. Private to "pavie": i.
"pavée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV · "pavie" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- pavie ← apvie · paive · pavei · pavvie · ppavie · pvaie
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "pavée" for "pavie" ever safe?
Frequency check: "pavée" vs "pavie" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "pavée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "pavie" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #56,705 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "pavée" and "pavie" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pavée vs priée". 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 #56,705 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.