Which to use
“prostituée” and “prostituées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,767
- “prostituée” frequency rank
- #9,898
- “prostituées” frequency rank
- 20665
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | prostituée | prostituées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Femme dont la profession consiste à avoir des rapports sexuels pour de l’argent. | Pluriel de prostituée. |
Same sound, different letters: prostituée vs prostituées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. prostituée runs 10 letters (CCVCCVCVVV) against prostituées's 11 (CCVCCVCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - prostituée and prostituées
This is the hard kind. prostituée and prostituées are pronounced identically (\pʁɔs.ti.tɥe\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “prostituée” sits inside “prostituées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20665, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
prostituée is recorded at frequency rank #10,767, classified as anoun, pronounced \pʁɔs.ti.tɥe\. prostituées is at rank #9,898, tagged as anoun, pronounced \pʁɔs.ti.tɥe\.
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 20665, this pair ranks #367,134 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of prostituée vs prostituées
Shared letters: eioprstué. Private to "prostituée": -. Private to "prostituées": -.
"prostituée" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCVCVVV · "prostituées" · 11 letters · shape CCVCCVCVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "prostituée" and "prostituées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "prostituée" or "prostituées"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "prostituée" / "prostituées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "prostituée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "prostituées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #367,134 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "prostituée" and "prostituées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "prostituée vs prostitués". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #367,134 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.