soudéesvssoudésWhat's the difference?

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

#44,197
“soudées” frequency rank
#26,190
“soudés” frequency rank
70387
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature soudées soudés
Definition Féminin pluriel de soudé. Masculin pluriel de soudé.

Same sound, different letters: soudées vs soudés

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

7 ch
soudées
6 ch
soudés

Ear matches; page differs - soudées and soudés

This is the hard kind. soudées 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70387, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

soudées is recorded at frequency rank #44,197, 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 70387, this pair ranks #51,489 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of soudées vs soudés

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

"soudées" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVVC  ·  "soudés" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "soudées" and "soudés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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: "soudées" 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 #44,197 for "soudées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "soudées" 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 #51,489 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "soudées" and "soudés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "soudées vs soudures". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #51,489 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