Which to use
“indiquées” and “indiquer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,456
- “indiquées” frequency rank
- #5,253
- “indiquer” frequency rank
- 22709
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | indiquées | indiquer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de indiquer. | Montrer, désigner une personne ou une chose. |
Same sound, different letters: indiquées vs indiquer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. indiquées runs 9 letters (VCCVCVVVC) against indiquer's 8 (VCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - indiquées and indiquer
This is the hard kind. indiquées and indiquer are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.di.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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22709, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
indiquées is recorded at frequency rank #17,456, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.di.ke\. indiquer is at rank #5,253, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.di.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 22709, this pair ranks #356,569 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of indiquées vs indiquer
Shared letters: deinqu. Private to "indiquées": sé. Private to "indiquer": r.
"indiquées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVVVC · "indiquer" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- indiquer ← idniquer · inddiquer · indiqeur · indiqquer · indiquerr · indiqure · indiuqer · indqiuer
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "indiquées" for "indiquer" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "indiquées" or "indiquer" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "indiquées" / "indiquer". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "indiquées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "indiquer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #356,569 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "indiquées" and "indiquer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "indiquées vs invoquées". 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 #356,569 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.