communiquées vs communiquer

Which to use

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

#26,303
“communiquées” frequency rank: #3,988
“communiquer” frequency rank: 30291
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	communiquées	communiquer
Definition	Participe passé féminin pluriel de communiquer.	Rendre commun à, faire part de, transmettre.

Same sound, different letters: communiquées vs communiquer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. communiquées runs 12 letters (CVCCVCVCVVVC) against communiquer's 11 (CVCCVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch

communiquées

11 ch

communiquer

Same sound, different spelling - communiquées / communiquer

This is the hard kind. communiquées and communiquer are pronounced identically (\kɔ.my.ni.ke\) 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 30291, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

communiquées is recorded at frequency rank #26,303, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ.my.ni.ke\. communiquer is at rank #3,988, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ.my.ni.ke\.

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 30291, this pair ranks #311,328 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of communiquées vs communiquer

Shared letters: ceimnoqu. Private to "communiquées": sé. Private to "communiquer": r.

"communiquées" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVVVC · "communiquer" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

communiquer ← ccommuniquer · cmomuniquer · commnuiquer · commuinquer · communiqeur · communiqquer · communiquerr · communiqure

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "communiquées" and "communiquer" mean the same thing in a sentence?

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

In ordinary French text, does "communiquées" or "communiquer" show up more?

"communiquer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,988 in our French list, against #26,303 for "communiquées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

Full dictionary entry for "communiquées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "communiquer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #311,328 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"communiquées" and "communiquer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "communiquée vs communiquées". 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 #311,328 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.