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Which to use

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

#24,401
“structurée” frequency rank
#34,763
“structurés” frequency rank
59164
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature structurée structurés
Definition Féminin singulier de structuré. Masculin pluriel de structuré.

Same sound, different letters: structurée vs structurés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. structurée (CCCVCCVCVV) and structurés (CCCVCCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

10 ch
structurée
10 ch
structurés

Same sound, different spelling - structurée / structurés

This is the hard kind. structurée and structurés are pronounced identically (\stʁyk.ty.ʁe\) 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 “structurée” becomes s in “structurés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59164, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

structurée is recorded at frequency rank #24,401, classified as anadj, pronounced \stʁyk.ty.ʁe\. structurés is at rank #34,763, tagged as anadj, pronounced \stʁyk.ty.ʁe\.

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 59164, this pair ranks #104,686 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of structurée vs structurés

Shared letters: crstué. Private to "structurée": e. Private to "structurés": -.

"structurée" · 10 letters · shape CCCVCCVCVV  ·  "structurés" · 10 letters · shape CCCVCCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "structurée" for "structurés" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\stʁyk.ty.ʁe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "structurée" or "structurés" show up more?
"structurée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,401 in our French list, against #34,763 for "structurés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "structurée" / "structurés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "structurée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "structurés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #104,686 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "structurée" and "structurés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "structurent vs structurés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #104,686 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