regardées vs regardez, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#43,630
“regardées” frequency rank: #1,402
“regardez” frequency rank: 45032
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Same sound, different letters: regardées vs regardez

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

9 ch

regardées

8 ch

regardez

Same sound, different spelling - regardées / regardez

This is the hard kind. regardées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45032, 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\. 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 45032, this pair ranks #205,921 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of regardées vs regardez

Shared letters: adegr. Private to "regardées": sé. Private to "regardez": z.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "regardées" and "regardez" 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.

Frequency check: "regardées" vs "regardez" - which ranks higher?

"regardez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,402 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.

What to do next

"regardées" and "regardez" 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 "regardez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #205,921 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"regardées" and "regardez" 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 #205,921 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.