Which to use
“impliquer” and “impliqués” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,852
- “impliquer” frequency rank
- #8,724
- “impliqués” frequency rank
- 18576
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | impliquer | impliqués |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Envelopper, engager, en parlant d’un crime ou de quelque affaire fâcheuse. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de impliquer. |
Same sound, different letters: impliquer vs impliqués
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Homophone desk: impliquer vs impliqués
This is the hard kind. impliquer 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18576, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
impliquer is recorded at frequency rank #9,852, 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 18576, this pair ranks #377,612 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of impliquer vs impliqués
Shared letters: ilmpqu. Private to "impliquer": er. Private to "impliqués": sé.
"impliquer" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC · "impliqués" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- impliquer ← imlpiquer · immpliquer · impilquer · impliqeur · impliqquer · impliquerr · impliqure · impliuqer
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "impliquer" for "impliqués" ever safe?
Which is more common, "impliquer" or "impliqués"?
After this comparison
"impliquer" and "impliqués" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "impliquer" 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 #377,612 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "impliquer" 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 #377,612 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.