Which to use
“prélevées” and “prélever” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #37,498
- “prélevées” frequency rank
- #18,292
- “prélever” frequency rank
- 55790
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | prélevées | prélever |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de prélever. | Lever préalablement une certaine portion sur le total. |
Same sound, different letters: prélevées vs prélever
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. prélevées runs 9 letters (CCVCVCVVC) against prélever's 8 (CCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - prélevées and prélever
This is the hard kind. prélevées and prélever are pronounced identically (\pʁe.lə.ve\) 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55790, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
prélevées is recorded at frequency rank #37,498, classified as averb, pronounced \pʁe.lə.ve\. prélever is at rank #18,292, tagged as averb, pronounced \pʁe.lə.ve\.
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 55790, this pair ranks #125,230 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of prélevées vs prélever
Shared letters: elprvé. Private to "prélevées": s. Private to "prélever": -.
"prélevées" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVCVVC · "prélever" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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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 "prélevées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "prélever" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #125,230 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "prélevées" and "prélever" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "précédées vs prélevées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #125,230 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.