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

#9,140
“connectés” frequency rank
#39,234
“connectez” frequency rank
48374
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature connectés connectez
Definition Participe passé masculin pluriel de connecter. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de connecter.

Same sound, different letters: connectés vs connectez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. connectés and connectez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

9 ch
connectés
9 ch
connectez

Same sound, different spelling - connectés / connectez

This is the hard kind. connectés and connectez 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48374, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

connectés is recorded at frequency rank #9,140, classified as averb, pronounced \ko.nɛk.te\. connectez is at rank #39,234, 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 48374, this pair ranks #179,440 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of connectés vs connectez

Shared letters: cenot. Private to "connectés": sé. Private to "connectez": z.

"connectés" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC  ·  "connectez" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • connectez ← cconnectez · cnonectez · conectez · conenctez · conncetez · connecctez · connecetz · connectezz

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "connectés" for "connectez" ever safe?
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: "connectés" vs "connectez" - which ranks higher?
"connectés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,140 in our French list, against #39,234 for "connectez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "connectés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "connectez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #179,440 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "connectés" and "connectez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "connectent vs connectez". 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 #179,440 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