Which to use
“saturé” and “saturées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,873
- “saturé” frequency rank
- #37,061
- “saturées” frequency rank
- 55934
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | saturé | saturées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui a atteint la saturation, qui ne peut plus rien accepter de plus. | Féminin pluriel de saturé. |
Same sound, different letters: saturé vs saturées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. saturé runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against saturées's 8 (CVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - saturé and saturées
This is the hard kind. saturé and saturées are pronounced identically (\sa.ty.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 2 extra letter(s) - “saturé” sits inside “saturées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55934, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
saturé is recorded at frequency rank #18,873, classified as anadj, pronounced \sa.ty.ʁe\. saturées is at rank #37,061, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sa.ty.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 55934, this pair ranks #124,247 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of saturé vs saturées
Shared letters: arstué. Private to "saturé": -. Private to "saturées": e.
"saturé" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "saturées" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "saturé" for "saturées" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "saturé" or "saturées" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "saturé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "saturées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #124,247 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "saturé" and "saturées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "saturées vs sutures". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #124,247 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.