Which to use
“recherchées” and “recherchés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,390
- “recherchées” frequency rank
- #14,547
- “recherchés” frequency rank
- 36937
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | recherchées | recherchés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de recherché. | Masculin pluriel de recherché. |
Same sound, different letters: recherchées vs recherchés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. recherchées runs 11 letters (CVCCVCCCVVC) against recherchés's 10 (CVCCVCCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - recherchées / recherchés
This is the hard kind. recherchées 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36937, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
recherchées is recorded at frequency rank #22,390, 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 36937, this pair ranks #266,072 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of recherchées vs recherchés
Shared letters: cehrsé. Private to "recherchées": -. Private to "recherchés": -.
"recherchées" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCCVVC · "recherchés" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
"recherchées" and "recherchés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "recherchées" 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 #266,072 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "recherchées" and "recherchés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recherchais vs recherchées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #266,072 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.