Which to use
“impacter” and “impactés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #37,866
- “impacter” frequency rank
- #40,808
- “impactés” frequency rank
- 78674
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | impacter | impactés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Entrer en collision ; heurter ; percuter. | Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe impacter. |
Same sound, different letters: impacter vs impactés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - impacter and impactés
This is the hard kind. impacter 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 78674, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
impacter is recorded at frequency rank #37,866, 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 78674, this pair ranks #25,156 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of impacter vs impactés
Shared letters: acimpt. Private to "impacter": er. Private to "impactés": sé.
"impacter" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC · "impactés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- impacter ← imapcter · immpacter · impaccter · impacetr · impacterr · impactre · impactter · impatcer
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "impacter" and "impactés" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "impacter" vs "impactés" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "impacter" 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 #25,156 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "impacter" and "impactés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "impactés vs impasses". 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 #25,156 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.