Which to use
“retirée” and “retirés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,475
- “retirée” frequency rank
- #13,248
- “retirés” frequency rank
- 24723
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | retirée | retirés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de retiré. | Masculin pluriel de l’adjectif retiré. |
Same sound, different letters: retirée vs retirés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. retirée (CVCVCVV) and retirés (CVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Homophone desk: retirée vs retirés
This is the hard kind. retirée and retirés are pronounced identically (\ʁə.ti.ʁe\) 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 a single letter - e in “retirée” becomes s in “retirés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24723, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
retirée is recorded at frequency rank #11,475, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.ti.ʁe\. retirés is at rank #13,248, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.ti.ʁe\.
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 24723, this pair ranks #344,983 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of retirée vs retirés
Shared letters: eirté. Private to "retirée": -. Private to "retirés": s.
"retirée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV · "retirés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "retirée" and "retirés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "retirée" or "retirés"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "retirée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "retirés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #344,983 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "retirée" and "retirés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "retirés vs révisés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #344,983 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.