regardévsregardéesConfusable pair

Which to use

“regardé” and “regardées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#2,692
“regardé” frequency rank
#43,630
“regardées” frequency rank
46322
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature regardé regardées
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de regarder. Participe passé féminin pluriel de regarder.

Same sound, different letters: regardé vs regardées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. regardé runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against regardées's 9 (CVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
regardé
9 ch
regardées

Same sound, different spelling - regardé / regardées

This is the hard kind. regardé and regardées are pronounced identically (\ʁə.ɡaʁ.de\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “regardé” sits inside “regardées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46322, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

regardé is recorded at frequency rank #2,692, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ɡaʁ.de\. regardées is at rank #43,630, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ɡaʁ.de\.

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 46322, this pair ranks #195,885 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of regardé vs regardées

Shared letters: adegré. Private to "regardé": -. Private to "regardées": s.

"regardé" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "regardées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "regardé" and "regardées" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.ɡaʁ.de\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "regardé" or "regardées"?
"regardé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,692 in our French list, against #43,630 for "regardées". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "regardé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "regardées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #195,885 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "regardé" and "regardées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "regardées vs retardés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #195,885 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