sacréesvsscreenConfusable pair

Quick tell: sacrées is a adjective, screen is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“sacrées” is an adjective and “screen” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#17,811
“sacrées” frequency rank
#15,034
“screen” frequency rank
32845
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sacrées screen
Definition Féminin pluriel de sacré. Enregistrement au moyen d’un logiciel d’une image diffusée sur un écran.

Where the eye mixes sacrées and screen

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

7 ch
sacrées
6 ch
screen

Visual trap between sacrées and screen

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: sacrées is \sa.kʁe\ while screen is \skʁin\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32845, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sacrées is recorded at frequency rank #17,811, classified as anadj, pronounced \sa.kʁe\. screen is at rank #15,034, tagged as anoun, pronounced \skʁin\.

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 32845, this pair ranks #294,557 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sacrées vs screen

Shared letters: cers. Private to "sacrées": . Private to "screen": n.

"sacrées" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC  ·  "screen" · 6 letters · shape CCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • screencsreen · sccreen · sceren · screenn · scren · screne · scrreen · srceen

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "sacrées" for "screen" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sacrées" is an adjective and "screen" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "sacrées" or "screen"?
"screen" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,034 in our French list, against #17,811 for "sacrées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sacrées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "screen" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #294,557 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sacrées" and "screen" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sacrées vs Sardes". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #294,557 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