Which to use
“contacté” and “contactez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,805
- “contacté” frequency rank
- #12,133
- “contactez” frequency rank
- 19938
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | contacté | contactez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de contacter. | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contacter. |
Same sound, different letters: contacté vs contactez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. contacté runs 8 letters (CVCCVCCV) against contactez's 9 (CVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - contacté and contactez
This is the hard kind. contacté and contactez are pronounced identically (\kɔ̃.tak.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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19938, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
contacté is recorded at frequency rank #7,805, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.tak.te\. contactez is at rank #12,133, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.tak.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 19938, this pair ranks #370,770 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of contacté vs contactez
Shared letters: acnot. Private to "contacté": é. Private to "contactez": ez.
"contacté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV · "contactez" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- contactez ← ccontactez · cnotactez · conatctez · conntactez · contacctez · contacetz · contactezz · contacttez
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "contacté" for "contactez" ever safe?
Frequency check: "contacté" vs "contactez" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "contacté" / "contactez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "contacté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "contactez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #370,770 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "contacté" and "contactez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "contactent vs contactez". 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 #370,770 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.