pratiquée vs pratiquées, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#12,221
“pratiquée” frequency rank: #23,656
“pratiquées” frequency rank: 35877
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	pratiquée	pratiquées
Definition	Participe passé féminin singulier de pratiquer.	Participe passé féminin pluriel de pratiquer.

Same sound, different letters: pratiquée vs pratiquées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. pratiquée runs 9 letters (CCVCVCVVV) against pratiquées's 10 (CCVCVCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch

pratiquée

10 ch

pratiquées

Homophone desk: pratiquée vs pratiquées

This is the hard kind. pratiquée and pratiquées are pronounced identically (\pʁa.ti.ke\) 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) - “pratiquée” sits inside “pratiquées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35877, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pratiquée is recorded at frequency rank #12,221, classified as averb, pronounced \pʁa.ti.ke\. pratiquées is at rank #23,656, tagged as averb, pronounced \pʁa.ti.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 35877, this pair ranks #273,585 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of pratiquée vs pratiquées

Shared letters: aeipqrtué. Private to "pratiquée": -. Private to "pratiquées": s.

"pratiquée" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVCVVV · "pratiquées" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCVVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "pratiquée" and "pratiquées" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\pʁa.ti.ke\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Which is more common, "pratiquée" or "pratiquées"?

"pratiquée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,221 in our French list, against #23,656 for "pratiquées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

Full dictionary entry for "pratiquée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "pratiquées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #273,585 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"pratiquée" and "pratiquées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pratiquées vs pratiquez". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #273,585 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.