confisquées vs confisqués

Which to use

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

#49,567
“confisquées” frequency rank: #30,107
“confisqués” frequency rank: 79674
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	confisquées	confisqués
Definition	Féminin pluriel de confisqué.	Masculin pluriel de confisqué.

Same sound, different letters: confisquées vs confisqués

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

11 ch

confisquées

10 ch

confisqués

Homophone desk: confisquées vs confisqués

This is the hard kind. confisquées and confisqués are pronounced identically (\kɔ̃.fis.ke\) 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 79674, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

confisquées is recorded at frequency rank #49,567, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.fis.ke\. confisqués is at rank #30,107, tagged as anadj, 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 79674, this pair ranks #22,735 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of confisquées vs confisqués

Shared letters: cfinoqsué. Private to "confisquées": e. Private to "confisqués": -.

"confisquées" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVVC · "confisqués" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "confisquées" for "confisqués" ever safe?

No. They are pronounced the same (\kɔ̃.fis.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 "confisquées" or "confisqués" show up more?

"confisqués" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,107 in our French list, against #49,567 for "confisquées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "confisquées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "confisqués" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #22,735 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"confisquées" and "confisqués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "confisquée vs confisquées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #22,735 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.