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

#43,630
“regardées” frequency rank
#25,791
“regardés” frequency rank
69421
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature regardées regardés
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel de regarder. Participe passé masculin pluriel de regarder.

Same sound, different letters: regardées vs regardés

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

9 ch
regardées
8 ch
regardés

Ear matches; page differs - regardées and regardés

This is the hard kind. regardées and regardés 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 69421, 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\. regardés is at rank #25,791, 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 69421, this pair ranks #55,173 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of regardées vs regardés

Shared letters: adegrsé. Private to "regardées": -. Private to "regardés": -.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "regardées" and "regardés" 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.
Frequency check: "regardées" vs "regardés" - which ranks higher?
"regardés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,791 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.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "regardées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "regardés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #55,173 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "regardées" and "regardés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "regardées vs retardés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #55,173 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