questionné vs questionner

Which to use

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

#29,499
“questionné” frequency rank: #15,734
“questionner” frequency rank: 45233
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	questionné	questionner
Definition	Participe passé masculin singulier de questionner.	Interroger quelqu’un, lui poser des questions.

Same sound, different letters: questionné vs questionner

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. questionné runs 10 letters (CVVCCVVCCV) against questionner's 11 (CVVCCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch

questionné

11 ch

questionner

Homophone desk: questionné vs questionner

This is the hard kind. questionné and questionner are pronounced identically (\kɛs.tjɔ.ne\) 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 45233, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

questionné is recorded at frequency rank #29,499, classified as averb, pronounced \kɛs.tjɔ.ne\. questionner is at rank #15,734, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɛs.tjɔ.ne\.

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 45233, this pair ranks #204,322 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of questionné vs questionner

Shared letters: einoqstu. Private to "questionné": é. Private to "questionner": r.

"questionné" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVVCCV · "questionner" · 11 letters · shape CVVCCVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

questionner ← qeustionner · qquestionner · quesitonner · quesstionner · questinoner · questionenr · questioner · questionnerr

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "questionné" and "questionner" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\kɛs.tjɔ.ne\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Frequency check: "questionné" vs "questionner" - which ranks higher?

"questionner" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,734 in our French list, against #29,499 for "questionné". 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 "questionné" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "questionner" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #204,322 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"questionné" and "questionner" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "questionné vs questionnent". 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 #204,322 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.