Which to use
“impliquée” and “impliquer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,797
- “impliquée” frequency rank
- #9,852
- “impliquer” frequency rank
- 22649
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | impliquée | impliquer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de impliquer. | Envelopper, engager, en parlant d’un crime ou de quelque affaire fâcheuse. |
Same sound, different letters: impliquée vs impliquer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - impliquée / impliquer
This is the hard kind. impliquée and impliquer 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22649, 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\. impliquer is at rank #9,852, 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 22649, this pair ranks #356,848 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of impliquée vs impliquer
Shared letters: eilmpqu. Private to "impliquée": é. Private to "impliquer": r.
"impliquée" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVV · "impliquer" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- impliquer ← imlpiquer · immpliquer · impilquer · impliqeur · impliqquer · impliquerr · impliqure · impliuqer
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "impliquée" for "impliquer" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "impliquée" or "impliquer" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "impliquée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "impliquer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #356,848 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "impliquée" and "impliquer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "impliquée vs impliquées". 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 #356,848 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.