concentréevsconcentrezWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: concentrée is a adjective, concentrez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“concentrée” is an adjective and “concentrez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,226
“concentrée” frequency rank
#32,754
“concentrez” frequency rank
46980
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature concentrée concentrez
Definition Féminin singulier de concentré. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de concentrer.

Same sound, different letters: concentrée vs concentrez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. concentrée (CVCCVCCCVV) and concentrez (CVCCVCCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

10 ch
concentrée
10 ch
concentrez

Same sound, different spelling - concentrée / concentrez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: concentrée and concentrez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46980, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

concentrée is recorded at frequency rank #14,226, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.tʁe\. concentrez is at rank #32,754, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.sɑ̃.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 46980, this pair ranks #190,562 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of concentrée vs concentrez

Shared letters: cenort. Private to "concentrée": é. Private to "concentrez": z.

"concentrée" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCCVV  ·  "concentrez" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • concentrez ← cconcentrez · cnocentrez · cocnentrez · conccentrez · concenntrez · concenrtez · concenterz · concentrezz

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "concentrée" for "concentrez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "concentrée" is an adjective and "concentrez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "concentrée" or "concentrez" show up more?
"concentrée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,226 in our French list, against #32,754 for "concentrez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "concentrée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "concentrez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #190,562 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "concentrée" and "concentrez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "concentrez vs contentez". 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 #190,562 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