Which to use
“soulagé” and “soulager” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,485
- “soulagé” frequency rank
- #10,585
- “soulager” frequency rank
- 27070
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | soulagé | soulager |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de soulager. | Délivrer, débarrasser d’une partie de quelque fardeau. |
Same sound, different letters: soulagé vs soulager
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. soulagé runs 7 letters (CVVCVCV) against soulager's 8 (CVVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - soulagé and soulager
This is the hard kind. soulagé and soulager are pronounced identically (\su.la.ʒe\) 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27070, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
soulagé is recorded at frequency rank #16,485, classified as averb, pronounced \su.la.ʒe\. soulager is at rank #10,585, tagged as averb, pronounced \su.la.ʒe\.
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 27070, this pair ranks #331,256 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of soulagé vs soulager
Shared letters: aglosu. Private to "soulagé": é. Private to "soulager": er.
"soulagé" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV · "soulager" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- soulager ← osulager · soluager · soualger · soulaegr · soulagerr · soulagger · soulagre · soulgaer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "soulagé" and "soulager" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "soulagé" or "soulager" show up more?
Useful next steps
"soulagé" and "soulager" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "soulagé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "soulager" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #331,256 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "soulagé" and "soulager" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "soulagé vs soutane". 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 #331,256 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.