interrogéevsinterrogerTell them apart

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.

10 ch
interrogée
10 ch
interroger

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

  • interrogerinetrroger · innterroger · interoger · interorger · interrgoer · interroegr · interrogerr · interrogger

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "interrogée" and "interroger" 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.
Which is more common, "interrogée" or "interroger"?
"interroger" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,992 in our French list, against #22,592 for "interrogée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list