Which to use
“collée” and “collez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,886
- “collée” frequency rank
- #43,850
- “collez” frequency rank
- 65736
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | collée | collez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de coller. | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de coller. |
Same sound, different letters: collée vs collez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. collée (CVCCVV) and collez (CVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Homophone desk: collée vs collez
This is the hard kind. collée and collez are pronounced identically (\kɔ.le\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65736, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
collée is recorded at frequency rank #21,886, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ.le\. collez is at rank #43,850, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ.le\.
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 65736, this pair ranks #71,007 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of collée vs collez
Shared letters: celo. Private to "collée": é. Private to "collez": z.
"collée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV · "collez" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- collez ← ccollez · clolez · colelz · colez · collezz · collze · ocllez
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "collée" and "collez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "collée" or "collez" show up more?
Useful next steps
"collée" and "collez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "collée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "collez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #71,007 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "collée" and "collez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "colla vs collez". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #71,007 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.