confisquervsconfisquésWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#28,108
“confisquer” frequency rank
#30,107
“confisqués” frequency rank
58215
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature confisquer confisqués
Definition Adjuger au fisc pour cause de crime ou de contravention aux lois, aux ordonnances. Masculin pluriel de confisqué.

Same sound, different letters: confisquer vs confisqués

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. confisquer and confisqués follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

10 ch
confisquer
10 ch
confisqués

Homophone desk: confisquer vs confisqués

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: confisquer and confisqués carry the same recorded pronunciation, \kɔ̃.fis.ke\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anadjective, 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 58215, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

confisquer is recorded at frequency rank #28,108, classified as averb, 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 58215, this pair ranks #110,363 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of confisquer vs confisqués

Shared letters: cfinoqsu. Private to "confisquer": er. Private to "confisqués": é.

"confisquer" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC  ·  "confisqués" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • confisquer ← cconfisquer · cnofisquer · cofnisquer · conffisquer · confiqsuer · confisqeur · confisqquer · confisquerr

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "confisquer" and "confisqués" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "confisquer" is a verb and "confisqués" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "confisquer" vs "confisqués" - which ranks higher?
"confisquer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,108 in our French list, against #30,107 for "confisqués". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "confisquer" / "confisqués". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "confisquer" 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 #110,363 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "confisquer" and "confisqués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "confisquées vs confisqués". 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 #110,363 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