Which to use
“implique” and “impliquent” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,762
- “implique” frequency rank
- #16,150
- “impliquent” frequency rank
- 19912
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | implique | impliquent |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de impliquer. | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de impliquer. |
Same sound, different letters: implique vs impliquent
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. implique runs 8 letters (VCCCVCVV) against impliquent's 10 (VCCCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - implique / impliquent
This is the hard kind. implique and impliquent are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.plik\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “implique” sits inside “impliquent”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19912, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
implique is recorded at frequency rank #3,762, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.plik\. impliquent is at rank #16,150, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.plik\.
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 19912, this pair ranks #370,903 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of implique vs impliquent
Shared letters: eilmpqu. Private to "implique": -. Private to "impliquent": nt.
"implique" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVCVV · "impliquent" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- implique ← imlpique · immplique · impilque · impliqeu · impliqque · impliuqe · impllique · implqiue
- impliquent ← imlpiquent · immpliquent · impilquent · impliqeunt · impliqquent · impliquennt · impliquentt · impliquetn
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "implique" and "impliquent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "implique" vs "impliquent" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "implique" / "impliquent". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "implique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "impliquent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #370,903 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "implique" and "impliquent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "impliquait vs impliquent". 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 #370,903 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.