Which to use
“impliquent” and “impliqués” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,150
- “impliquent” frequency rank
- #8,724
- “impliqués” frequency rank
- 24874
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | impliquent | impliqués |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de impliquer. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de impliquer. |
Where the eye mixes impliquent and impliqués
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. impliquent runs 10 letters (VCCCVCVVCC) against impliqués's 9 (VCCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between impliquent and impliqués
A purely visual mix-up. impliquent (\ɛ̃.plik\) and impliqués (\ɛ̃.pli.ke\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24874, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
impliquent is recorded at frequency rank #16,150, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.plik\. 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 24874, this pair ranks #344,067 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of impliquent vs impliqués
Shared letters: ilmpqu. Private to "impliquent": ent. Private to "impliqués": sé.
"impliquent" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCVVCC · "impliqués" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- impliquent ← imlpiquent · immpliquent · impilquent · impliqeunt · impliqquent · impliquennt · impliquentt · impliquetn
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "impliquent" and "impliqués" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "impliquent" or "impliqués" show up more?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "impliquent" 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 #344,067 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "impliquent" and "impliqués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "impliqués vs italiques". 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 #344,067 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.