insultéevsinsultezTell them apart

Quick tell: insultée is a noun, insultez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“insultée” is a noun and “insultez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#38,367
“insultée” frequency rank
#46,240
“insultez” frequency rank
84607
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature insultée insultez
Definition Femme qui a été insultée. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de insulter.

Same sound, different letters: insultée vs insultez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. insultée (VCCVCCVV) and insultez (VCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
insultée
8 ch
insultez

Homophone desk: insultée vs insultez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: insultée and insultez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ɛ̃.syl.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 84607, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

insultée is recorded at frequency rank #38,367, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.syl.te\. insultez is at rank #46,240, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.syl.te\.

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 84607, this pair ranks #12,680 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of insultée vs insultez

Shared letters: eilnstu. Private to "insultée": é. Private to "insultez": z.

"insultée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV  ·  "insultez" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • insultez ← innsultez · inslutez · inssultez · insuletz · insulltez · insultezz · insulttez · insultze

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "insultée" and "insultez" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "insultée" is a noun and "insultez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "insultée" vs "insultez" - which ranks higher?
"insultée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,367 in our French list, against #46,240 for "insultez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"insultée" and "insultez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "insultée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "insultez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #12,680 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "insultée" and "insultez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "insultent vs insultez". 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 #12,680 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