Which to use
“informer” and “informés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,584
- “informer” frequency rank
- #10,722
- “informés” frequency rank
- 15306
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | informer | informés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Instruire de quelque chose ; faire savoir quelque chose. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de informer. |
Same sound, different letters: informer vs informés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - informer and informés
This is the hard kind. informer and informés are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me\) 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 15306, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
informer is recorded at frequency rank #4,584, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me\. informés is at rank #10,722, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me\.
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 15306, this pair ranks #392,929 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of informer vs informés
Shared letters: fimnor. Private to "informer": e. Private to "informés": sé.
"informer" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC · "informés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- informer ← ifnormer · infformer · infomrer · inforemr · informerr · informmer · informre · inforrmer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "informer" and "informés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "informer" vs "informés" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "informer" / "informés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "informer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "informés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #392,929 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "informer" and "informés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "informels vs informés". 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 #392,929 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.