Which to use
“secouée” and “secouer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #32,593
- “secouée” frequency rank
- #14,361
- “secouer” frequency rank
- 46954
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | secouée | secouer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de secouer. | Remuer quelque chose fortement et à plusieurs reprises. |
Same sound, different letters: secouée vs secouer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. secouée (CVCVVVV) and secouer (CVCVVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - secouée / secouer
This is the hard kind. secouée and secouer are pronounced identically (\sə.kwe\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46954, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
secouée is recorded at frequency rank #32,593, classified as averb, pronounced \sə.kwe\. secouer is at rank #14,361, tagged as averb, pronounced \sə.kwe\.
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 46954, this pair ranks #190,740 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of secouée vs secouer
Shared letters: ceosu. Private to "secouée": é. Private to "secouer": r.
"secouée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVVV · "secouer" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- secouer ← escouer · sceouer · seccouer · secoeur · secouerr · secoure · secuoer · seocuer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "secouée" and "secouer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "secouée" vs "secouer" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "secouée" / "secouer". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "secouée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "secouer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #190,740 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "secouée" and "secouer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "secouée vs secouent". 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 #190,740 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.