Which to use
“regardais” and “regardait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,221
- “regardais” frequency rank
- #8,610
- “regardait” frequency rank
- 18831
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | regardais | regardait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de regarder. | Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de regarder. |
Same sound, different letters: regardais vs regardait
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. regardais and regardait follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Homophone desk: regardais vs regardait
This is the hard kind. regardais and regardait are pronounced identically (\ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɛ\) 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 a single letter - s in “regardais” becomes t in “regardait”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18831, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
regardais is recorded at frequency rank #10,221, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɛ\. regardait is at rank #8,610, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɛ\.
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 18831, this pair ranks #376,362 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of regardais vs regardait
Shared letters: adegir. Private to "regardais": s. Private to "regardait": t.
"regardais" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC · "regardait" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "regardais" for "regardait" ever safe?
Frequency check: "regardais" vs "regardait" - which ranks higher?
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 "regardais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "regardait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #376,362 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "regardais" and "regardait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "regardait vs repartait". 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 #376,362 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.