regardéevsregardéesConfusable pair

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.

8 ch
regardée
9 ch
regardées

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?
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, "regardée" or "regardées"?
"regardée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,246 in our French list, against #43,630 for "regardées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list