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.

Same sound, different letters: regardées vs regarder

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. regardées runs 9 letters (CVCVCCVVC) against regarder's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch

regardées

8 ch

regarder

Homophone desk: regardées vs regarder

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "regardées" and "regarder" 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.

In ordinary French text, does "regardées" or "regarder" show up more?

"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.

After this comparison

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

Full dictionary entry for "regardées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "regarder" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #210,699 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"regardées" and "regarder" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "regardées vs retardés". 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 #210,699 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.