regardéevsregardezConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#17,246
“regardée” frequency rank
#1,402
“regardez” frequency rank
18648
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature regardée regardez
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de regarder. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de regarder.

Same sound, different letters: regardée vs regardez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. regardée (CVCVCCVV) and regardez (CVCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
regardée
8 ch
regardez

Ear matches; page differs - regardée and regardez

This is the hard kind. regardée and regardez 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18648, 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\. regardez is at rank #1,402, 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 18648, this pair ranks #377,222 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of regardée vs regardez

Shared letters: adegr. Private to "regardée": é. Private to "regardez": z.

"regardée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV  ·  "regardez" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • regardez ← ergardez · reagrdez · regadrez · regarddez · regardezz · regardze · regaredz · regarrdez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "regardée" for "regardez" ever safe?
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.
In ordinary French text, does "regardée" or "regardez" show up more?
"regardez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,402 in our French list, against #17,246 for "regardée". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

"regardée" and "regardez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "regardée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "regardez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #377,222 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "regardée" and "regardez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "regardée vs remariée". 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 #377,222 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