Which to use
“raconté” and “racontée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,069
- “raconté” frequency rank
- #17,801
- “racontée” frequency rank
- 22870
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | raconté | racontée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de raconter. | Participe passé féminin singulier de raconter. |
Same sound, different letters: raconté vs racontée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
This is the hard kind. raconté and racontée are pronounced identically (\ʁa.kɔ̃.te\) 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 extra letter(s) - “raconté” sits inside “racontée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22870, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
raconté is recorded at frequency rank #5,069, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁa.kɔ̃.te\. racontée is at rank #17,801, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁa.kɔ̃.te\.
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 22870, this pair ranks #355,676 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of raconté vs racontée
Shared letters: acnorté. Private to "raconté": -. Private to "racontée": e.
"raconté" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV · "racontée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV