Which to use
“stressé” and “stressés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,018
- “stressé” frequency rank
- #37,572
- “stressés” frequency rank
- 53590
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | stressé | stressés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Anxieux, qui éprouve du stress. | Masculin pluriel de stressé. |
Same sound, different letters: stressé vs stressés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. stressé runs 7 letters (CCCVCCV) against stressés's 8 (CCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - stressé / stressés
This is the hard kind. stressé and stressés are pronounced identically (\stʁɛ.se\) 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) - “stressé” sits inside “stressés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53590, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
stressé is recorded at frequency rank #16,018, classified as anadj, pronounced \stʁɛ.se\. stressés is at rank #37,572, tagged as anadj, pronounced \stʁɛ.se\.
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 53590, this pair ranks #139,680 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of stressé vs stressés
Shared letters: ersté. Private to "stressé": -. Private to "stressés": -.
"stressé" · 7 letters · shape CCCVCCV · "stressés" · 8 letters · shape CCCVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "stressé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "stressés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #139,680 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "stressé" and "stressés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "stressés vs Suresnes". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #139,680 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.