sculptéesvssculpteurWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#34,307
“sculptées” frequency rank
#13,060
“sculpteur” frequency rank
47367
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sculptées sculpteur
Definition Féminin pluriel de sculpté. Artiste qui sculpte la matière.

Where the eye mixes sculptées and sculpteur

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. sculptées and sculpteur follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CCVCCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

9 ch
sculptées
9 ch
sculpteur

Look-alike desk: sculptées vs sculpteur

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: sculptées is \skyl.te\ while sculpteur is \skyl.tœʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47367, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sculptées is recorded at frequency rank #34,307, classified as anadj, pronounced \skyl.te\. sculpteur is at rank #13,060, tagged as anoun, pronounced \skyl.tœʁ\.

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 47367, this pair ranks #187,542 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of sculptées vs sculpteur

Shared letters: celpstu. Private to "sculptées": é. Private to "sculpteur": r.

"sculptées" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCCVVC  ·  "sculpteur" · 9 letters · shape CCVCCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sculpteur ← csulpteur · scculpteur · sclupteur · scullpteur · sculpetur · sculppteur · sculpteru · sculpteurr

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "sculptées" and "sculpteur" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sculptées" is an adjective and "sculpteur" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "sculptées" or "sculpteur"?
"sculpteur" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,060 in our French list, against #34,307 for "sculptées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "sculptées" and "sculpteur" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sculptées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sculpteur" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #187,542 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sculptées" and "sculpteur" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sculpte vs sculptées". 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 #187,542 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