tailléevstailléesTell them apart

Which to use

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

#23,045
“taillée” frequency rank
#32,209
“taillées” frequency rank
55254
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature taillée taillées
Definition Féminin singulier de taillé. Féminin pluriel de taillé.

Same sound, different letters: taillée vs taillées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. taillée runs 7 letters (CVVCCVV) against taillées's 8 (CVVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
taillée
8 ch
taillées

Same sound, different spelling - taillée / taillées

This is the hard kind. taillée and taillées 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) - “taillée” sits inside “taillées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55254, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

taillée is recorded at frequency rank #23,045, classified as anadj, pronounced \tɑ.je\. taillées is at rank #32,209, 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 55254, this pair ranks #128,650 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of taillée vs taillées

Shared letters: aeilté. Private to "taillée": -. Private to "taillées": s.

"taillée" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV  ·  "taillées" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "taillée" and "taillées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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: "taillée" vs "taillées" - which ranks higher?
"taillée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,045 in our French list, against #32,209 for "taillées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "taillée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "taillées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #128,650 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "taillée" and "taillées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "taillées vs taillis". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #128,650 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