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

#30,536
“conseillée” frequency rank
#28,498
“conseillez” frequency rank
59034
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conseillée conseillez
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de conseiller. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de conseiller.

Same sound, different letters: conseillée vs conseillez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. conseillée (CVCCVVCCVV) and conseillez (CVCCVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

10 ch
conseillée
10 ch
conseillez

Homophone desk: conseillée vs conseillez

This is the hard kind. conseillée and conseillez are pronounced identically (\kɔ̃.se.je\) 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 59034, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conseillée is recorded at frequency rank #30,536, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.se.je\. conseillez is at rank #28,498, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.se.je\.

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 59034, this pair ranks #105,451 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of conseillée vs conseillez

Shared letters: ceilnos. Private to "conseillée": é. Private to "conseillez": z.

"conseillée" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVVCCVV  ·  "conseillez" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • conseillez ← cconseillez · cnoseillez · conesillez · connseillez · conseilelz · conseilez · conseillezz · conseillze

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "conseillée" and "conseillez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\kɔ̃.se.je\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "conseillée" vs "conseillez" - which ranks higher?
"conseillez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,498 in our French list, against #30,536 for "conseillée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "conseillée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "conseillez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #105,451 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conseillée" and "conseillez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "conseillée vs conseillères". 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 #105,451 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