remplacévsremplacésConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#3,796
“remplacé” frequency rank
#10,570
“remplacés” frequency rank
14366
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remplacé remplacés
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de remplacer. Participe passé masculin pluriel de remplacer.

Same sound, different letters: remplacé vs remplacés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. remplacé runs 8 letters (CVCCCVCV) against remplacés's 9 (CVCCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
remplacé
9 ch
remplacés

Same sound, different spelling - remplacé / remplacés

This is the hard kind. remplacé and remplacés are pronounced identically (\ʁɑ̃.pla.se\) 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) - “remplacé” sits inside “remplacés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14366, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remplacé is recorded at frequency rank #3,796, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pla.se\. remplacés is at rank #10,570, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pla.se\.

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 14366, this pair ranks #396,995 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of remplacé vs remplacés

Shared letters: acelmpré. Private to "remplacé": -. Private to "remplacés": s.

"remplacé" · 8 letters · shape CVCCCVCV  ·  "remplacés" · 9 letters · shape CVCCCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "remplacé" and "remplacés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁɑ̃.pla.se\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "remplacé" vs "remplacés" - which ranks higher?
"remplacé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,796 in our French list, against #10,570 for "remplacés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"remplacé" and "remplacés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remplacé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remplacés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #396,995 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remplacé" and "remplacés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remplacés vs replacé". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #396,995 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