Which to use
“piquée” and “piqués” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,472
- “piquée” frequency rank
- #48,104
- “piqués” frequency rank
- 74576
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | piquée | piqués |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de piqué. | Masculin pluriel de piqué. |
Same sound, different letters: piquée vs piqués
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. piquée (CVCVVV) and piqués (CVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - piquée / piqués
This is the hard kind. piquée and piqués are pronounced identically (\pi.ke\) 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 a single letter - e in “piquée” becomes s in “piqués”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74576, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
piquée is recorded at frequency rank #26,472, classified as anadj, pronounced \pi.ke\. 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 74576, this pair ranks #36,713 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of piquée vs piqués
Shared letters: ipqué. Private to "piquée": e. Private to "piqués": s.
"piquée" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVV · "piqués" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "piquée" and "piqués" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "piquée" or "piqués"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "piquée" / "piqués". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "piquée" 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 #36,713 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "piquée" and "piqués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pieuses vs piqués". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #36,713 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.