salarié vs salariés, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#5,501
“salarié” frequency rank: #2,338
“salariés” frequency rank: 7839
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	salarié	salariés
Definition	Qui reçoit des gages, un salaire.	Masculin pluriel de salarié.

Same sound, different letters: salarié vs salariés

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

7 ch

salarié

8 ch

salariés

Ear matches; page differs - salarié and salariés

This is the hard kind. salarié and salariés are pronounced identically (\sa.la.ʁje\) 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 extra letter(s) - “salarié” sits inside “salariés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7839, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

salarié is recorded at frequency rank #5,501, classified as anadj, pronounced \sa.la.ʁje\. salariés is at rank #2,338, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sa.la.ʁje\.

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 7839, this pair ranks #421,978 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of salarié vs salariés

Shared letters: ailrsé. Private to "salarié": -. Private to "salariés": -.

"salarié" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV · "salariés" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "salarié" and "salariés" be used interchangeably?

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

In ordinary French text, does "salarié" or "salariés" show up more?

"salariés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,338 in our French list, against #5,501 for "salarié". 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 "salarié" / "salariés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

Full dictionary entry for "salarié" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "salariés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #421,978 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"salarié" and "salariés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "salarié vs salariées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #421,978 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.