confisquéevsconfisquerConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#48,426
“confisquée” frequency rank
#28,108
“confisquer” frequency rank
76534
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature confisquée confisquer
Definition Féminin singulier de confisqué. Adjuger au fisc pour cause de crime ou de contravention aux lois, aux ordonnances.

Same sound, different letters: confisquée vs confisquer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.

10 ch
confisquée
10 ch
confisquer

Ear matches; page differs - confisquée and confisquer

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: confisquée and confisquer carry the same recorded pronunciation, \kɔ̃.fis.ke\. 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 76534, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

confisquée is recorded at frequency rank #48,426, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.fis.ke\. confisquer is at rank #28,108, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.fis.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 76534, this pair ranks #30,853 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of confisquée vs confisquer

Shared letters: cefinoqsu. Private to "confisquée": é. Private to "confisquer": r.

"confisquée" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVV  ·  "confisquer" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • confisquercconfisquer · cnofisquer · cofnisquer · conffisquer · confiqsuer · confisqeur · confisqquer · confisquerr

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "confisquée" for "confisquer" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "confisquée" is an adjective and "confisquer" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "confisquée" or "confisquer" show up more?
"confisquer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,108 in our French list, against #48,426 for "confisquée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "confisquée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "confisquer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #30,853 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "confisquée" and "confisquer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "confisquée vs confisquées". 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 #30,853 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