Which to use
“consultée” and “consulter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #25,604
- “consultée” frequency rank
- #3,989
- “consulter” frequency rank
- 29593
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | consultée | consulter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de consulter. | Prendre avis, conseil ou instruction de quelqu’un. |
Same sound, different letters: consultée vs consulter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. consultée (CVCCVCCVV) and consulter (CVCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - consultée / consulter
This is the hard kind. consultée and consulter are pronounced identically (\kɔ̃.syl.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 29593, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
consultée is recorded at frequency rank #25,604, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.syl.te\. consulter is at rank #3,989, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.syl.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 29593, this pair ranks #315,692 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of consultée vs consulter
Shared letters: celnostu. Private to "consultée": é. Private to "consulter": r.
"consultée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV · "consulter" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- consulter ← cconsulter · cnosulter · connsulter · consluter · conssulter · consuletr · consullter · consulterr
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "consultée" and "consulter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "consultée" or "consulter" show up more?
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 "consultée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "consulter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #315,692 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "consultée" and "consulter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "consultée vs consultent". 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 #315,692 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.