Which to use
“impactés” is a verb and “intactes” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #40,808
- “impactés” frequency rank
- #29,402
- “intactes” frequency rank
- 70210
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | impactés | intactes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe impacter. | Féminin pluriel de intact. |
Where the eye mixes impactés and intactes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. impactés and intactes follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: impactés vs intactes
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: impactés is \ɛ̃.pak.te\ while intactes is \ɛ̃.takt\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70210, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
impactés is recorded at frequency rank #40,808, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.pak.te\. intactes is at rank #29,402, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.takt\.
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 70210, this pair ranks #52,217 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of impactés vs intactes
Shared letters: acist. Private to "impactés": mpé. Private to "intactes": en.
"impactés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC · "intactes" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- intactes ← inatctes · inntactes · intacctes · intacets · intactess · intactse · intacttes · intatces
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "impactés" and "intactes" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "impactés" or "intactes" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "impactés" and "intactes" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "impactés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "intactes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #52,217 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "impactés" and "intactes" 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 #52,217 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.