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

#24,920
“contactée” frequency rank
#12,133
“contactez” frequency rank
37053
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature contactée contactez
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de contacter. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de contacter.

Same sound, different letters: contactée vs contactez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

9 ch
contactée
9 ch
contactez

Homophone desk: contactée vs contactez

This is the hard kind. contactée 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37053, 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\. 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 37053, this pair ranks #265,212 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of contactée vs contactez

Shared letters: acenot. Private to "contactée": é. Private to "contactez": z.

"contactée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV  ·  "contactez" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • contactezccontactez · cnotactez · conatctez · conntactez · contacctez · contacetz · contactezz · contacttez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "contactée" and "contactez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\kɔ̃.tak.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: "contactée" vs "contactez" - which ranks higher?
"contactez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,133 in our French list, against #24,920 for "contactée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "contactée" 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 #265,212 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "contactée" and "contactez" 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 #265,212 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