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Which to use

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

#26,923
“vitrée” frequency rank
#35,774
“vitrées” frequency rank
62697
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vitrée vitrées
Definition Féminin singulier de vitré. Féminin pluriel de vitré.

Same sound, different letters: vitrée vs vitrées

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

6 ch
vitrée
7 ch
vitrées

Ear matches; page differs - vitrée and vitrées

This is the hard kind. vitrée and vitrées are pronounced identically (\vi.tʁe\) 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) - “vitrée” sits inside “vitrées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62697, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vitrée is recorded at frequency rank #26,923, classified as anadj, pronounced \vi.tʁe\. vitrées is at rank #35,774, tagged as anadj, pronounced \vi.tʁe\.

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 62697, this pair ranks #85,795 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of vitrée vs vitrées

Shared letters: eirtvé. Private to "vitrée": -. Private to "vitrées": s.

"vitrée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV  ·  "vitrées" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "vitrée" for "vitrées" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\vi.tʁe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "vitrée" vs "vitrées" - which ranks higher?
"vitrée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #26,923 in our French list, against #35,774 for "vitrées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "vitrée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vitrées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #85,795 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vitrée" and "vitrées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "virées vs vitrées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #85,795 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