saturéevssaturésConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#34,744
“saturée” frequency rank
#29,140
“saturés” frequency rank
63884
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature saturée saturés
Definition Féminin singulier de saturé. Masculin pluriel de saturé.

Same sound, different letters: saturée vs saturés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. saturée (CVCVCVV) and saturés (CVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
saturée
7 ch
saturés

Ear matches; page differs - saturée and saturés

This is the hard kind. saturée and saturés 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 a single letter - e in “saturée” becomes s in “saturés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63884, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

saturée is recorded at frequency rank #34,744, classified as anadj, pronounced \sa.ty.ʁe\. saturés is at rank #29,140, 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 63884, this pair ranks #79,743 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of saturée vs saturés

Shared letters: arstué. Private to "saturée": e. Private to "saturés": -.

"saturée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "saturés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "saturée" and "saturés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\sa.ty.ʁe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "saturée" vs "saturés" - which ranks higher?
"saturés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,140 in our French list, against #34,744 for "saturée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"saturée" and "saturés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "saturée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "saturés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #79,743 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "saturée" and "saturés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "saturée vs satyre". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #79,743 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