Which to use
“regardant” is an adjective and “regardons” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #4,369
- “regardant” frequency rank
- #17,245
- “regardons” frequency rank
- 21614
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | regardant | regardons |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui regarde de trop près à quelque chose, qui est trop strict, trop économe. | Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de regarder. |
Where the eye mixes regardant and regardons
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. regardant and regardons follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between regardant and regardons
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: regardant is \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\ while regardons is \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɔ̃\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21614, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
regardant is recorded at frequency rank #4,369, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\. regardons is at rank #17,245, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ɡaʁ.dɔ̃\.
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 21614, this pair ranks #362,263 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of regardant vs regardons
Shared letters: adegnr. Private to "regardant": t. Private to "regardons": os.
"regardant" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCC · "regardons" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "regardant" for "regardons" ever safe?
Which is more common, "regardant" or "regardons"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "regardant" and "regardons" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "regardant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "regardons" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #362,263 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "regardant" and "regardons" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "regardées vs regardons". 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 #362,263 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.