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

#26,485
“promulguée” frequency rank
#49,872
“promulguer” frequency rank
76357
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature promulguée promulguer
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de promulguer. Publier une loi dans les formes requises, pour la rendre exécutoire.

Same sound, different letters: promulguée vs promulguer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. promulguée (CCVCVCCVVV) and promulguer (CCVCVCCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

10 ch
promulguée
10 ch
promulguer

Homophone desk: promulguée vs promulguer

This is the hard kind. promulguée and promulguer are pronounced identically (\pʁɔ.myl.ɡe\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76357, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

promulguée is recorded at frequency rank #26,485, classified as averb, pronounced \pʁɔ.myl.ɡe\. promulguer is at rank #49,872, tagged as averb, pronounced \pʁɔ.myl.ɡe\.

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 76357, this pair ranks #31,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of promulguée vs promulguer

Shared letters: eglmopru. Private to "promulguée": é. Private to "promulguer": -.

"promulguée" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVV  ·  "promulguer" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • promulguer ← pormulguer · ppromulguer · prmoulguer · promluguer · prommulguer · promugluer · promulgeur · promulgguer

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "promulguée" and "promulguer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\pʁɔ.myl.ɡe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "promulguée" vs "promulguer" - which ranks higher?
"promulguée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #26,485 in our French list, against #49,872 for "promulguer". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "promulguée" / "promulguer". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "promulguée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "promulguer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #31,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "promulguée" and "promulguer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "promulgué vs promulguer". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #31,379 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