Which to use
“piégée” and “piégées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,629
- “piégée” frequency rank
- #41,455
- “piégées” frequency rank
- 61084
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | piégée | piégées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de piéger. | Participe passé féminin pluriel de piéger. |
Same sound, different letters: piégée vs piégées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. piégée runs 6 letters (CVVCVV) against piégées's 7 (CVVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - piégée and piégées
This is the hard kind. piégée and piégées are pronounced identically (\pje.ʒe\) and both work as averb. 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) - “piégée” sits inside “piégées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61084, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
piégée is recorded at frequency rank #19,629, classified as averb, pronounced \pje.ʒe\. piégées is at rank #41,455, tagged as averb, pronounced \pje.ʒe\.
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 61084, this pair ranks #94,154 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of piégée vs piégées
Shared letters: egipé. Private to "piégée": -. Private to "piégées": s.
"piégée" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV · "piégées" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "piégée" and "piégées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "piégée" vs "piégées" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "piégée" / "piégées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "piégée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "piégées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #94,154 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "piégée" and "piégées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "piégées vs pieuses". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #94,154 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.