Which to use
“recherchée” and “recherchées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,224
- “recherchée” frequency rank
- #22,390
- “recherchées” frequency rank
- 38614
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | recherchée | recherchées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de recherché. | Féminin pluriel de recherché. |
Same sound, different letters: recherchée vs recherchées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. recherchée runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCCVV) against recherchées's 11 (CVCCVCCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: recherchée vs recherchées
This is the hard kind. recherchée and recherchées 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) - “recherchée” sits inside “recherchées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38614, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
recherchée is recorded at frequency rank #16,224, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe\. recherchées is at rank #22,390, 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 38614, this pair ranks #254,031 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of recherchée vs recherchées
Shared letters: cehré. Private to "recherchée": -. Private to "recherchées": s.
"recherchée" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCCVV · "recherchées" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "recherchée" for "recherchées" ever safe?
Frequency check: "recherchée" vs "recherchées" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "recherchée" / "recherchées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "recherchée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "recherchées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #254,031 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "recherchée" and "recherchées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recherchais vs recherchées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #254,031 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.