Which to use
“recherché” and “recherchés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,879
- “recherché” frequency rank
- #14,547
- “recherchés” frequency rank
- 21426
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | recherché | recherchés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Où il entre du raffinement. | Masculin pluriel de recherché. |
Same sound, different letters: recherché vs recherchés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. recherché runs 9 letters (CVCCVCCCV) against recherchés's 10 (CVCCVCCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - recherché and recherchés
This is the hard kind. recherché and recherchés are pronounced identically (\ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe\) 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) - “recherché” sits inside “recherchés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21426, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
recherché is recorded at frequency rank #6,879, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe\. recherchés is at rank #14,547, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe\.
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 21426, this pair ranks #363,219 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of recherché vs recherchés
Shared letters: cehré. Private to "recherché": -. Private to "recherchés": s.
"recherché" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCCV · "recherchés" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "recherché" for "recherchés" ever safe?
Frequency check: "recherché" vs "recherchés" - which ranks higher?
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 "recherché" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "recherchés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #363,219 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "recherché" and "recherchés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recherchais vs recherchés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #363,219 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.