saturéesvssaturerTell them apart

Quick tell: saturées is a adjective, saturer is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“saturées” is an adjective and “saturer” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#37,061
“saturées” frequency rank
#37,060
“saturer” frequency rank
74121
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature saturées saturer
Definition Féminin pluriel de saturé. Dissoudre dans un liquide la quantité maximale qu’il puisse absorber d’une substance.

Same sound, different letters: saturées vs saturer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. saturées runs 8 letters (CVCVCVVC) against saturer's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
saturées
7 ch
saturer

Ear matches; page differs - saturées and saturer

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: saturées and saturer carry the same recorded pronunciation, \sa.ty.ʁe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74121, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

saturées is recorded at frequency rank #37,061, classified as anadj, pronounced \sa.ty.ʁe\. saturer is at rank #37,060, tagged as averb, 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 74121, this pair ranks #38,181 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of saturées vs saturer

Shared letters: aerstu. Private to "saturées": é. Private to "saturer": -.

"saturées" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC  ·  "saturer" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • saturer ← asturer · satruer · satturer · satuerr · saturerr · saturre · saturrer · sautrer

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "saturées" for "saturer" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "saturées" is an adjective and "saturer" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "saturées" or "saturer" show up more?
"saturer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #37,060 in our French list, against #37,061 for "saturées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "saturées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "saturer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #38,181 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "saturées" and "saturer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "saturer vs satyre". 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 #38,181 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