Which to use
“contactée” and “contacter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,920
- “contactée” frequency rank
- #4,740
- “contacter” frequency rank
- 29660
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | contactée | contacter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de contacter. | Entrer en contact, en relation avec. |
Same sound, different letters: contactée vs contacter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - contactée and contacter
This is the hard kind. contactée and contacter 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29660, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
contactée is recorded at frequency rank #24,920, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.tak.te\. contacter is at rank #4,740, 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 29660, this pair ranks #315,287 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of contactée vs contacter
Shared letters: acenot. Private to "contactée": é. Private to "contacter": r.
"contactée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV · "contacter" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- contacter ← ccontacter · cnotacter · conatcter · conntacter · contaccter · contacetr · contacterr · contactre
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "contactée" and "contacter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "contactée" vs "contacter" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "contactée" / "contacter". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "contactée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "contacter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #315,287 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "contactée" and "contacter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "contactée vs contentée". 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 #315,287 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.