Which to use
“interrogée” and “interroger” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,592
- “interrogée” frequency rank
- #5,992
- “interroger” frequency rank
- 28584
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | interrogée | interroger |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de interroger. | Poser des questions à quelqu’un soit pour s’informer de quelque chose, soit pour s’assurer que la personne questionnée possède ou a acquis une certaine connaissance. |
Same sound, different letters: interrogée vs interroger
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - interrogée and interroger
This is the hard kind. interrogée and interroger 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28584, 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\. interroger is at rank #5,992, 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 28584, this pair ranks #321,893 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of interrogée vs interroger
Shared letters: eginort. Private to "interrogée": é. Private to "interroger": -.
"interrogée" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVV · "interroger" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- interroger ← inetrroger · innterroger · interoger · interorger · interrgoer · interroegr · interrogerr · interrogger
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "interrogée" and "interroger" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "interrogée" or "interroger"?
Useful next steps
"interrogée" and "interroger" 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 "interroger" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #321,893 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "interrogée" and "interroger" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "interrogée vs interrogez". 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 #321,893 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.