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

#43,140
“sectorielle” frequency rank
#41,002
“sectorielles” frequency rank
84142
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sectorielle sectorielles
Definition Féminin singulier de sectoriel. Féminin pluriel de sectoriel.

Same sound, different letters: sectorielle vs sectorielles

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. sectorielle runs 11 letters (CVCCVCVVCCV) against sectorielles's 12 (CVCCVCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
sectorielle
12 ch
sectorielles

Ear matches; page differs - sectorielle and sectorielles

This is the hard kind. sectorielle and sectorielles are pronounced identically (\sɛk.tɔ.ʁjɛl\) 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 1 extra letter(s) - “sectorielle” sits inside “sectorielles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 84142, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sectorielle is recorded at frequency rank #43,140, classified as anadj, pronounced \sɛk.tɔ.ʁjɛl\. sectorielles is at rank #41,002, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sɛk.tɔ.ʁjɛl\.

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 84142, this pair ranks #13,499 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of sectorielle vs sectorielles

Shared letters: ceilorst. Private to "sectorielle": -. Private to "sectorielles": -.

"sectorielle" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCCV  ·  "sectorielles" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • sectorielle ← esctorielle · scetorielle · secctorielle · secotrielle · sectoirelle · sectoreille · sectoriele · sectorielel
  • sectorielles ← esctorielles · scetorielles · secctorielles · secotrielles · sectoirelles · sectoreilles · sectorielels · sectorieles

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "sectorielle" and "sectorielles" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\sɛk.tɔ.ʁjɛl\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "sectorielle" vs "sectorielles" - which ranks higher?
"sectorielles" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #41,002 in our French list, against #43,140 for "sectorielle". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "sectorielle" / "sectorielles". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sectorielle" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sectorielles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #13,499 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sectorielle" and "sectorielles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sectorielles vs sensorielles". 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 #13,499 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