risquées vs risqués, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#40,472
“risquées” frequency rank: #37,533
“risqués” frequency rank: 78005
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	risquées	risqués
Definition	Féminin pluriel de risqué.	Masculin pluriel de risqué.

Same sound, different letters: risquées vs risqués

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. risquées runs 8 letters (CVCCVVVC) against risqués's 7 (CVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch

risquées

7 ch

risqués

Same sound, different spelling - risquées / risqués

This is the hard kind. risquées and risqués are pronounced identically (\ʁis.ke\) 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 78005, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

risquées is recorded at frequency rank #40,472, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁis.ke\. risqués is at rank #37,533, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁis.ke\.

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 78005, this pair ranks #26,875 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of risquées vs risqués

Shared letters: iqrsué. Private to "risquées": e. Private to "risqués": -.

"risquées" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVVC · "risqués" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "risquées" and "risqués" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁis.ke\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Which is more common, "risquées" or "risqués"?

"risqués" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #37,533 in our French list, against #40,472 for "risquées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "risquées" / "risqués". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

Full dictionary entry for "risquées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "risqués" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #26,875 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"risquées" and "risqués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "risqués vs roques". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #26,875 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.