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Which to use

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

#13,141
“connectée” frequency rank
#21,273
“connectées” frequency rank
34414
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature connectée connectées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de connecter. Participe passé féminin pluriel de connecter.

Same sound, different letters: connectée vs connectées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. connectée runs 9 letters (CVCCVCCVV) against connectées's 10 (CVCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
connectée
10 ch
connectées

Homophone desk: connectée vs connectées

This is the hard kind. connectée and connectées are pronounced identically (\ko.nɛk.te\) and both work as averb. 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 extra letter(s) - “connectée” sits inside “connectées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34414, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

connectée is recorded at frequency rank #13,141, classified as averb, pronounced \ko.nɛk.te\. connectées is at rank #21,273, 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 34414, this pair ranks #283,998 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of connectée vs connectées

Shared letters: cenoté. Private to "connectée": -. Private to "connectées": s.

"connectée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV  ·  "connectées" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "connectée" and "connectées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ko.nɛk.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "connectée" vs "connectées" - which ranks higher?
"connectée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,141 in our French list, against #21,273 for "connectées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "connectée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "connectées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #283,998 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "connectée" and "connectées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "connectées vs connectent". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #283,998 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