Which to use
“informés” and “informez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,722
- “informés” frequency rank
- #30,659
- “informez” frequency rank
- 41381
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | informés | informez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin pluriel de informer. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de informer. |
Same sound, different letters: informés vs informez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. informés and informez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Same sound, different spelling - informés / informez
This is the hard kind. informés and informez 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 41381, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
informés is recorded at frequency rank #10,722, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.fɔʁ.me\. informez is at rank #30,659, 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 41381, this pair ranks #233,488 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of informés vs informez
Shared letters: fimnor. Private to "informés": sé. Private to "informez": ez.
"informés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC · "informez" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- informez ← ifnormez · infformez · infomrez · inforemz · informezz · informmez · informze · inforrmez
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "informés" and "informez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "informés" or "informez" show up more?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "informés" / "informez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "informés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "informez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #233,488 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "informés" and "informez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "informels vs informez". 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 #233,488 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.