postéevspostéesWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“postée” and “postées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#19,947
“postée” frequency rank
#29,919
“postées” frequency rank
49866
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature postée postées
Definition Féminin singulier de posté. Féminin pluriel de posté.

Same sound, different letters: postée vs postées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.

6 ch
postée
7 ch
postées

Same sound, different spelling - postée / postées

This is the hard kind. postée and postées are pronounced identically (\pɔs.te\) 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) - “postée” sits inside “postées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49866, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

postée is recorded at frequency rank #19,947, classified as anadj, pronounced \pɔs.te\. postées is at rank #29,919, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pɔs.te\.

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 49866, this pair ranks #167,268 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of postée vs postées

Shared letters: eopsté. Private to "postée": -. Private to "postées": -.

"postée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV  ·  "postées" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "postée" and "postées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\pɔs.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "postée" or "postées" show up more?
"postée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,947 in our French list, against #29,919 for "postées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"postée" and "postées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "postée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "postées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #167,268 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "postée" and "postées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "postées vs postier". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #167,268 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list