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

#27,591
“ravagée” frequency rank
#49,313
“ravagés” frequency rank
76904
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ravagée ravagés
Definition Féminin singulier de ravagé. Masculin pluriel de ravagé.

Same sound, different letters: ravagée vs ravagés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. ravagée (CVCVCVV) and ravagés (CVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
ravagée
7 ch
ravagés

Homophone desk: ravagée vs ravagés

This is the hard kind. ravagée and ravagés are pronounced identically (\ʁa.va.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 a single letter - e in “ravagée” becomes s in “ravagés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76904, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ravagée is recorded at frequency rank #27,591, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁa.va.ʒe\. ravagés is at rank #49,313, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁa.va.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 76904, this pair ranks #29,860 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of ravagée vs ravagés

Shared letters: agrvé. Private to "ravagée": e. Private to "ravagés": s.

"ravagée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "ravagés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "ravagée" and "ravagés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁa.va.ʒe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "ravagée" or "ravagés" show up more?
"ravagée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,591 in our French list, against #49,313 for "ravagés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "ravagée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ravagés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,860 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ravagée" and "ravagés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ravager vs ravagés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #29,860 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