soudéevssoudésTell them apart

Which to use

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

#29,983
“soudée” frequency rank
#26,190
“soudés” frequency rank
56173
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature soudée soudés
Definition Féminin singulier de soudé. Masculin pluriel de soudé.

Same sound, different letters: soudée vs soudés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. soudée (CVVCVV) and soudés (CVVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
soudée
6 ch
soudés

Ear matches; page differs - soudée and soudés

This is the hard kind. soudée and soudés are pronounced identically (\su.de\) 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 “soudée” becomes s in “soudés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56173, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soudée is recorded at frequency rank #29,983, classified as anadj, pronounced \su.de\. soudés is at rank #26,190, tagged as anadj, pronounced \su.de\.

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 56173, this pair ranks #122,760 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of soudée vs soudés

Shared letters: dosué. Private to "soudée": e. Private to "soudés": -.

"soudée" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV  ·  "soudés" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "soudée" and "soudés" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\su.de\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "soudée" vs "soudés" - which ranks higher?
"soudés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #26,190 in our French list, against #29,983 for "soudée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "soudée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "soudés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #122,760 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "soudée" and "soudés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sofres vs soudés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #122,760 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