moquéevsmoquezConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#49,802
“moquée” frequency rank
#34,199
“moquez” frequency rank
84001
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature moquée moquez
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de moquer. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de moquer.

Same sound, different letters: moquée vs moquez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.

6 ch
moquée
6 ch
moquez

Ear matches; page differs - moquée and moquez

This is the hard kind. moquée and moquez are pronounced identically (\mɔ.ke\) 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 84001, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

moquée is recorded at frequency rank #49,802, classified as averb, pronounced \mɔ.ke\. moquez is at rank #34,199, tagged as averb, pronounced \mɔ.ke\.

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 84001, this pair ranks #13,769 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of moquée vs moquez

Shared letters: emoqu. Private to "moquée": é. Private to "moquez": z.

"moquée" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVV  ·  "moquez" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • moquezmmoquez · moqeuz · moqquez · moquezz · moquze · mouqez · mqouez · omquez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "moquée" and "moquez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\mɔ.ke\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "moquée" vs "moquez" - which ranks higher?
"moquez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #34,199 in our French list, against #49,802 for "moquée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "moquée" / "moquez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "moquée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "moquez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #13,769 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "moquée" and "moquez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "moquée vs moqués". 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 #13,769 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