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“interrogée” and “interrogées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#22,592
“interrogée” frequency rank
#24,643
“interrogées” frequency rank
47235
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature interrogée interrogées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de interroger. Participe passé féminin pluriel de interroger.

Same sound, different letters: interrogée vs interrogées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. interrogée runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVCVV) against interrogées's 11 (VCCVCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
interrogée
11 ch
interrogées

Homophone desk: interrogée vs interrogées

This is the hard kind. interrogée and interrogées are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒe\) 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 extra letter(s) - “interrogée” sits inside “interrogées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47235, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

interrogée is recorded at frequency rank #22,592, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒe\. interrogées is at rank #24,643, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒe\.

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 47235, this pair ranks #188,479 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of interrogée vs interrogées

Shared letters: eginorté. Private to "interrogée": -. Private to "interrogées": s.

"interrogée" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVV  ·  "interrogées" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "interrogée" and "interrogées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ʒe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "interrogée" vs "interrogées" - which ranks higher?
"interrogée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,592 in our French list, against #24,643 for "interrogées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "interrogée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "interrogées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #188,479 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "interrogée" and "interrogées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "interrogées vs interrogez". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #188,479 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