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

#40,070
“valorisée” frequency rank
#48,852
“valorisées” frequency rank
88922
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature valorisée valorisées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de valoriser. Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe valoriser.

Same sound, different letters: valorisée vs valorisées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. valorisée runs 9 letters (CVCVCVCVV) against valorisées's 10 (CVCVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
valorisée
10 ch
valorisées

Same sound, different spelling - valorisée / valorisées

This is the hard kind. valorisée and valorisées are pronounced identically (\va.lɔ.ʁi.ze\) 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 extra letter(s) - “valorisée” sits inside “valorisées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 88922, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

valorisée is recorded at frequency rank #40,070, classified as averb, pronounced \va.lɔ.ʁi.ze\. valorisées is at rank #48,852, tagged as averb, pronounced \va.lɔ.ʁi.ze\.

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 88922, this pair ranks #6,382 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of valorisée vs valorisées

Shared letters: aeilorsvé. Private to "valorisée": -. Private to "valorisées": -.

"valorisée" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVV  ·  "valorisées" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "valorisée" and "valorisées" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\va.lɔ.ʁi.ze\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "valorisée" or "valorisées"?
"valorisée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40,070 in our French list, against #48,852 for "valorisées". 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 "valorisée" / "valorisées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "valorisée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "valorisées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #6,382 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "valorisée" and "valorisées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "valorisées vs valorisent". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #6,382 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