Which to use
“navigué” and “naviguer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #38,443
- “navigué” frequency rank
- #14,098
- “naviguer” frequency rank
- 52541
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | navigué | naviguer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de naviguer. | Aller sur mer, sur un lac, sur une rivière. |
Same sound, different letters: navigué vs naviguer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. navigué runs 7 letters (CVCVCVV) against naviguer's 8 (CVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - navigué and naviguer
This is the hard kind. navigué and naviguer are pronounced identically (\na.vi.ɡe\) 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 52541, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
navigué is recorded at frequency rank #38,443, classified as averb, pronounced \na.vi.ɡe\. naviguer is at rank #14,098, tagged as averb, pronounced \na.vi.ɡe\.
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 52541, this pair ranks #147,023 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of navigué vs naviguer
Shared letters: aginuv. Private to "navigué": é. Private to "naviguer": er.
"navigué" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV · "naviguer" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- naviguer ← anviguer · naivguer · navgiuer · navigeur · navigguer · naviguerr · navigure · naviuger
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "navigué" for "naviguer" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "navigué" or "naviguer" show up more?
Useful next steps
"navigué" and "naviguer" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "navigué" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "naviguer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #147,023 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "navigué" and "naviguer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "navigué vs naviguent". 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 #147,023 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.