informervsinformésWhat's the difference?

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.

8 ch
informer
8 ch
informés

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": .

"informer" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC  ·  "informés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • informerifnormer · infformer · infomrer · inforemr · informerr · informmer · informre · inforrmer

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "informer" and "informés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "informer" vs "informés" - which ranks higher?
"informer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,584 in our French list, against #10,722 for "informés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list