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

#16,842
“connecte” frequency rank
#13,141
“connectée” frequency rank
29983
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature connecte connectée
Definition Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de connecter. Participe passé féminin singulier de connecter.

Where the eye mixes connecte and connectée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence.

8 ch
connecte
9 ch
connectée

Look-alike desk: connecte vs connectée

A purely visual mix-up. connecte (\ko.nɛkt\) and connectée (\ko.nɛk.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29983, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

connecte is recorded at frequency rank #16,842, classified as averb, pronounced \ko.nɛkt\. connectée is at rank #13,141, tagged as averb, pronounced \ko.nɛk.te\.

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 29983, this pair ranks #313,220 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of connecte vs connectée

Shared letters: cenot. Private to "connecte": -. Private to "connectée": é.

"connecte" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "connectée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • connectecconnecte · cnonecte · conecte · conencte · conncete · conneccte · connecet · connectte

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "connecte" for "connectée" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ko.nɛkt\ versus \ko.nɛk.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "connecte" vs "connectée" - which ranks higher?
"connectée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,141 in our French list, against #16,842 for "connecte". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "connecte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "connectée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #313,220 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "connecte" and "connectée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "connectée vs contentée". 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 #313,220 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