taillévstailléeConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#15,046
“taillé” frequency rank
#23,045
“taillée” frequency rank
38091
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature taillé taillée
Definition Fait, proportionné. Féminin singulier de taillé.

Same sound, different letters: taillé vs taillée

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

6 ch
taillé
7 ch
taillée

Ear matches; page differs - taillé and taillée

This is the hard kind. taillé and taillée are pronounced identically (\tɑ.je\) 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) - “taillé” sits inside “taillée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38091, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

taillé is recorded at frequency rank #15,046, classified as anadj, pronounced \tɑ.je\. taillée is at rank #23,045, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tɑ.je\.

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 38091, this pair ranks #257,730 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of taillé vs taillée

Shared letters: ailté. Private to "taillé": -. Private to "taillée": e.

"taillé" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV  ·  "taillée" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "taillé" for "taillée" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\tɑ.je\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "taillé" vs "taillée" - which ranks higher?
"taillé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,046 in our French list, against #23,045 for "taillée". 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 "taillé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "taillée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #257,730 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "taillé" and "taillée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "taillée vs taillis". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #257,730 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