Which to use
“piégés” is a verb and “piqués” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #25,767
- “piégés” frequency rank
- #48,104
- “piqués” frequency rank
- 73871
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | piégés | piqués |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin pluriel de piéger. | Masculin pluriel de piqué. |
Where the eye mixes piégés and piqués
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. piégés (CVVCVC) and piqués (CVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Look-alike desk: piégés vs piqués
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: piégés is \pje.ʒe\ while piqués is \pi.ke\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73871, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
piégés is recorded at frequency rank #25,767, classified as averb, pronounced \pje.ʒe\. piqués is at rank #48,104, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pi.ke\.
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 73871, this pair ranks #39,019 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of piégés vs piqués
Shared letters: ipsé. Private to "piégés": g. Private to "piqués": qu.
"piégés" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "piqués" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "piégés" and "piqués" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "piégés" or "piqués" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "piégés" and "piqués" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "piégés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "piqués" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #39,019 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "piégés" and "piqués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pieuses vs piqués". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #39,019 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.