impactévsimpactésWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

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

#39,344
“impacté” frequency rank
#40,808
“impactés” frequency rank
80152
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature impacté impactés
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe impacter. Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe impacter.

Same sound, different letters: impacté vs impactés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. impacté runs 7 letters (VCCVCCV) against impactés's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
impacté
8 ch
impactés

Same sound, different spelling - impacté / impactés

This is the hard kind. impacté and impactés are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.pak.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 extra letter(s) - “impacté” sits inside “impactés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80152, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

impacté is recorded at frequency rank #39,344, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.pak.te\. impactés is at rank #40,808, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.pak.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 80152, this pair ranks #21,628 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of impacté vs impactés

Shared letters: acimpté. Private to "impacté": -. Private to "impactés": s.

"impacté" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV  ·  "impactés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "impacté" and "impactés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛ̃.pak.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: "impacté" vs "impactés" - which ranks higher?
"impacté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,344 in our French list, against #40,808 for "impactés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"impacté" and "impactés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "impacté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "impactés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #21,628 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "impacté" and "impactés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "impactés vs impasses". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #21,628 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