Which to use
“perdu” and “perdus” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #634
- “perdu” frequency rank
- #5,799
- “perdus” frequency rank
- 6433
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | perdu | perdus |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Dont on n’a plus la possession, la jouissance. | Masculin pluriel de perdu. |
Same sound, different letters: perdu vs perdus
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - perdu and perdus
This is the hard kind. perdu and perdus are pronounced identically (\pɛʁ.dy\) 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) - “perdu” sits inside “perdus”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6433, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
perdu is recorded at frequency rank #634, classified as anadj, pronounced \pɛʁ.dy\. perdus is at rank #5,799, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pɛʁ.dy\.
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 6433, this pair ranks #426,224 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of perdu vs perdus
Shared letters: depru. Private to "perdu": -. Private to "perdus": s.
"perdu" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "perdus" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "perdu" and "perdus" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "perdu" vs "perdus" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "perdu" / "perdus". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "perdu" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "perdus" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #426,224 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "perdu" and "perdus" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "perdras vs perdus". 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 #426,224 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.