Which to use
“prolongée” and “prolongées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,537
- “prolongée” frequency rank
- #32,535
- “prolongées” frequency rank
- 42072
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | prolongée | prolongées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de prolongé. | Féminin pluriel de prolongé. |
Same sound, different letters: prolongée vs prolongées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. prolongée runs 9 letters (CCVCVCCVV) against prolongées's 10 (CCVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: prolongée vs prolongées
This is the hard kind. prolongée and prolongées are pronounced identically (\pʁɔ.lɔ̃.ʒe\) 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) - “prolongée” sits inside “prolongées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42072, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
prolongée is recorded at frequency rank #9,537, classified as anadj, pronounced \pʁɔ.lɔ̃.ʒe\. prolongées is at rank #32,535, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pʁɔ.lɔ̃.ʒe\.
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 42072, this pair ranks #228,448 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of prolongée vs prolongées
Shared letters: eglnopré. Private to "prolongée": -. Private to "prolongées": s.
"prolongée" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVCCVV · "prolongées" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "prolongée" and "prolongées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "prolongée" vs "prolongées" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"prolongée" and "prolongées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "prolongée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "prolongées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #228,448 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "prolongée" and "prolongées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "prolongées vs prolongera". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #228,448 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.