Which to use
“impliquée” and “impliquées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,797
- “impliquée” frequency rank
- #16,908
- “impliquées” frequency rank
- 29705
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | impliquée | impliquées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de impliquer. | Participe passé féminin pluriel de impliquer. |
Same sound, different letters: impliquée vs impliquées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. impliquée runs 9 letters (VCCCVCVVV) against impliquées's 10 (VCCCVCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - impliquée and impliquées
This is the hard kind. impliquée and impliquées are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.pli.ke\) 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) - “impliquée” sits inside “impliquées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29705, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
impliquée is recorded at frequency rank #12,797, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.pli.ke\. impliquées is at rank #16,908, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.pli.ke\.
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 29705, this pair ranks #315,005 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of impliquée vs impliquées
Shared letters: eilmpqué. Private to "impliquée": -. Private to "impliquées": s.
"impliquée" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVV · "impliquées" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "impliquée" and "impliquées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "impliquée" or "impliquées" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "impliquée" / "impliquées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "impliquée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "impliquées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #315,005 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "impliquée" and "impliquées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "impliquées vs impliquent". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #315,005 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.