Which to use
“interpellées” and “interpeller” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #45,678
- “interpellées” frequency rank
- #20,173
- “interpeller” frequency rank
- 65851
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | interpellées | interpeller |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de interpeller. | Adresser la parole, d’une façon plus ou moins brusque, à quelqu’un pour lui demander quelque chose. |
Same sound, different letters: interpellées vs interpeller
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - interpellées / interpeller
This is the hard kind. interpellées and interpeller are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le\) 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65851, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
interpellées is recorded at frequency rank #45,678, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le\. interpeller is at rank #20,173, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le\.
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 65851, this pair ranks #70,487 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of interpellées vs interpeller
Shared letters: eilnprt. Private to "interpellées": sé. Private to "interpeller": -.
"interpellées" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVVC · "interpeller" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- interpeller ← inetrpeller · innterpeller · intepreller · interepller · interpelelr · interpeler · interpellerr · interpellre
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "interpellées" and "interpeller" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "interpellées" or "interpeller"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "interpellées" / "interpeller". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "interpellées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "interpeller" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #70,487 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "interpellées" and "interpeller" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "interpellée vs interpellées". 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 #70,487 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.