rappelésvsrappelezTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#29,504
“rappelés” frequency rank
#9,545
“rappelez” frequency rank
39049
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rappelés rappelez
Definition Masculin pluriel de rappelé. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rappeler.

Same sound, different letters: rappelés vs rappelez

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

8 ch
rappelés
8 ch
rappelez

Same sound, different spelling - rappelés / rappelez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: rappelés 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 39049, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rappelés is recorded at frequency rank #29,504, 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 39049, this pair ranks #250,881 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rappelés vs rappelez

Shared letters: aelpr. Private to "rappelés": . Private to "rappelez": z.

"rappelés" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC  ·  "rappelez" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rappelezarppelez · rapelez · rapeplez · rappeelz · rappelezz · rappellez · rappelze · rappleez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rappelés" for "rappelez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rappelés" is an adjective and "rappelez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "rappelés" 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 #29,504 for "rappelés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "rappelés" 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 #250,881 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rappelés" and "rappelez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rappela vs rappelés". 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 #250,881 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