partagésvspartagezWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: partagés is a adjective, partagez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“partagés” is an adjective and “partagez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,268
“partagés” frequency rank
#12,633
“partagez” frequency rank
23901
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature partagés partagez
Definition Masculin pluriel de partagé. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de partager.

Same sound, different letters: partagés vs partagez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. partagés and partagez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
partagés
8 ch
partagez

Ear matches; page differs - partagés and partagez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: partagés and partagez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \paʁ.ta.ʒe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23901, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

partagés is recorded at frequency rank #11,268, classified as anadj, pronounced \paʁ.ta.ʒe\. partagez is at rank #12,633, tagged as averb, pronounced \paʁ.ta.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 23901, this pair ranks #349,791 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of partagés vs partagez

Shared letters: agprt. Private to "partagés": . Private to "partagez": ez.

"partagés" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC  ·  "partagez" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • partagezaprtagez · paratgez · parrtagez · partaegz · partagezz · partaggez · partagze · partgaez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "partagés" and "partagez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "partagés" is an adjective and "partagez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "partagés" or "partagez" show up more?
"partagés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,268 in our French list, against #12,633 for "partagez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "partagés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "partagez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #349,791 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "partagés" and "partagez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "partagés vs partes". 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 #349,791 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