regardées vs regarder, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#43,630
“regardées” frequency rank: #776
“regarder” frequency rank: 44406
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	regardées	regarder
Definition	Participe passé féminin pluriel de regarder.	Porter ses regards sur quelque chose ou quelqu’un.

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set regardées and regarder apart are highlighted. They share 7 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

9 ch

regardées

8 ch

regarder

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

This is the hard kind. regardées and regarder 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44406, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

regardées is recorded at frequency rank #43,630, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ɡaʁ.de\. regarder is at rank #776, 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 44406, this pair ranks #210,699 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of regardées vs regarder

Shared letters: adegr. Private to "regardées": sé. Private to "regarder": -.

"regardées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC · "regarder" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

regarder ← ergarder · reagrder · regadrer · regardder · regarderr · regardre · regaredr · regarrder

Frequency comparison

regardées#43,630

regarder#776

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "regardées" and "regarder" 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, "regardées" or "regarder"?

"regarder" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #776 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.

Remembering regardées vs regarder

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