Which to use
“stoppé” and “stopper” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,284
- “stoppé” frequency rank
- #8,468
- “stopper” frequency rank
- 28752
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | stoppé | stopper |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de stopper. | Arrêter, en parlant d’un navire à moteur, d’un train, d’une machine. |
Same sound, different letters: stoppé vs stopper
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. stoppé runs 6 letters (CCVCCV) against stopper's 7 (CCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - stoppé and stopper
This is the hard kind. stoppé and stopper are pronounced identically (\stɔ.pe\) 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 28752, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
stoppé is recorded at frequency rank #20,284, classified as averb, pronounced \stɔ.pe\. stopper is at rank #8,468, tagged as averb, pronounced \stɔ.pe\.
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 28752, this pair ranks #320,924 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of stoppé vs stopper
Shared letters: opst. Private to "stoppé": é. Private to "stopper": er.
"stoppé" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV · "stopper" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- stopper ← sotpper · sstopper · stopepr · stoper · stopperr · stoppre · stpoper · sttopper
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "stoppé" and "stopper" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "stoppé" vs "stopper" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"stoppé" and "stopper" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "stoppé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "stopper" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #320,924 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "stoppé" and "stopper" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "scope vs stoppé". 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 #320,924 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.