Which to use
“regardée” and “regardées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,246
- “regardée” frequency rank
- #43,630
- “regardées” frequency rank
- 60876
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | regardée | regardées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de regarder. | Participe passé féminin pluriel de regarder. |
Same sound, different letters: regardée vs regardées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. regardée runs 8 letters (CVCVCCVV) against regardées's 9 (CVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - regardée / regardées
This is the hard kind. regardée 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 1 extra letter(s) - “regardée” sits inside “regardées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60876, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
regardée is recorded at frequency rank #17,246, 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 60876, this pair ranks #95,313 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of regardée vs regardées
Shared letters: adegré. Private to "regardée": -. Private to "regardées": s.
"regardée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV · "regardées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "regardée" and "regardées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "regardée" or "regardées"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "regardée" / "regardées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "regardée" 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 #95,313 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "regardée" and "regardées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "regardées vs retardés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #95,313 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.