Which to use
“impliquée” and “impliqués” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,797
- “impliquée” frequency rank
- #8,724
- “impliqués” frequency rank
- 21521
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | impliquée | impliqués |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de impliquer. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de impliquer. |
Same sound, different letters: impliquée vs impliqués
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. impliquée (VCCCVCVVV) and impliqués (VCCCVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - impliquée and impliqués
This is the hard kind. impliquée and impliqués 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 a single letter - e in “impliquée” becomes s in “impliqués”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21521, 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\. impliqués is at rank #8,724, 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 21521, this pair ranks #362,742 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of impliquée vs impliqués
Shared letters: ilmpqué. Private to "impliquée": e. Private to "impliqués": s.
"impliquée" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVV · "impliqués" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "impliquée" and "impliqués" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "impliquée" or "impliqués"?
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 "impliquée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "impliqués" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #362,742 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "impliquée" and "impliqués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "impliqués vs italiques". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #362,742 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.