Which to use
“infiltrer” and “infiltrés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,046
- “infiltrer” frequency rank
- #30,657
- “infiltrés” frequency rank
- 51703
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | infiltrer | infiltrés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pénétrer dans le sol ou dans des roches poreuses, en parlant de l’eau. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de infiltrer. |
Same sound, different letters: infiltrer vs infiltrés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. infiltrer and infiltrés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - infiltrer and infiltrés
This is the hard kind. infiltrer and infiltrés are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.fil.tʁe\) 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 51703, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
infiltrer is recorded at frequency rank #21,046, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.fil.tʁe\. infiltrés is at rank #30,657, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.fil.tʁe\.
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 51703, this pair ranks #153,062 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of infiltrer vs infiltrés
Shared letters: filnrt. Private to "infiltrer": e. Private to "infiltrés": sé.
"infiltrer" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCCVC · "infiltrés" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- infiltrer ← ifniltrer · inffiltrer · infilltrer · infilrter · infilterr · infiltrerr · infiltrre · infiltrrer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "infiltrer" and "infiltrés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "infiltrer" or "infiltrés"?
What to do next
"infiltrer" and "infiltrés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "infiltrer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "infiltrés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #153,062 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "infiltrer" and "infiltrés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "infiltrée vs infiltrés". 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 #153,062 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.