rappeléevsrappelezConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#26,839
“rappelée” frequency rank
#9,545
“rappelez” frequency rank
36384
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rappelée rappelez
Definition Féminin singulier de rappelé. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rappeler.

Same sound, different letters: rappelée vs rappelez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. rappelée (CVCCVCVV) and rappelez (CVCCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
rappelée
8 ch
rappelez

Ear matches; page differs - rappelée and rappelez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: rappelée and rappelez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ʁa.pə.le\. 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 36384, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rappelée is recorded at frequency rank #26,839, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁa.pə.le\. rappelez is at rank #9,545, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁa.pə.le\.

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 36384, this pair ranks #269,994 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rappelée vs rappelez

Shared letters: aelpr. Private to "rappelée": é. Private to "rappelez": z.

"rappelée" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVV  ·  "rappelez" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rappelez ← arppelez · rapelez · rapeplez · rappeelz · rappelezz · rappellez · rappelze · rappleez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rappelée" for "rappelez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rappelée" is an adjective and "rappelez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "rappelée" or "rappelez" show up more?
"rappelez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,545 in our French list, against #26,839 for "rappelée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "rappelée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rappelez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #269,994 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rappelée" and "rappelez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rappelée vs rappeuse". 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 #269,994 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