validées vs validés, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#34,800
“validées” frequency rank: #28,010
“validés” frequency rank: 62810
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	validées	validés
Definition	Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe valider.	Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe valider.

Same sound, different letters: validées vs validés

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

8 ch

validées

7 ch

validés

Homophone desk: validées vs validés

This is the hard kind. validées and validés are pronounced identically (\va.li.de\) 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 62810, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

validées is recorded at frequency rank #34,800, classified as averb, pronounced \va.li.de\. validés is at rank #28,010, tagged as averb, pronounced \va.li.de\.

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 62810, this pair ranks #85,176 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of validées vs validés

Shared letters: adilsvé. Private to "validées": e. Private to "validés": -.

"validées" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC · "validés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "validées" and "validés" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\va.li.de\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Frequency check: "validées" vs "validés" - which ranks higher?

"validés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,010 in our French list, against #34,800 for "validées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"validées" and "validés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

Full dictionary entry for "validées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "validés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #85,176 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"validées" and "validés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "validées vs valident". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #85,176 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.