Which to use
“recruté” and “recrutés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,930
- “recruté” frequency rank
- #18,036
- “recrutés” frequency rank
- 28966
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | recruté | recrutés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de recruter. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de recruter. |
Same sound, different letters: recruté vs recrutés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. recruté runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against recrutés's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - recruté / recrutés
This is the hard kind. recruté and recrutés are pronounced identically (\ʁə.kʁy.te\) and both work as averb. 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) - “recruté” sits inside “recrutés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28966, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
recruté is recorded at frequency rank #10,930, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.kʁy.te\. recrutés is at rank #18,036, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.kʁy.te\.
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 28966, this pair ranks #319,568 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of recruté vs recrutés
Shared letters: certué. Private to "recruté": -. Private to "recrutés": s.
"recruté" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "recrutés" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "recruté" and "recrutés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "recruté" or "recrutés" show up more?
What to do next
"recruté" and "recrutés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "recruté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "recrutés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #319,568 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "recruté" and "recrutés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recrutés vs recrutons". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #319,568 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.