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

#27,936
“regardera” frequency rank
#1,402
“regardez” frequency rank
29338
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature regardera regardez
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du futur de regarder. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de regarder.

Where the eye mixes regardera and regardez

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.

9 ch
regardera
8 ch
regardez

Look-alike desk: regardera vs regardez

A purely visual mix-up. regardera (\ʁə.ɡaʁ.də.ʁa\) and regardez (\ʁə.ɡaʁ.de\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29338, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

regardera is recorded at frequency rank #27,936, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ɡaʁ.də.ʁa\. 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 29338, this pair ranks #317,303 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of regardera vs regardez

Shared letters: adegr. Private to "regardera": -. Private to "regardez": z.

"regardera" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV  ·  "regardez" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • regarderaergardera · reagrdera · regadrera · regarddera · regardear · regarderra · regardrea · regaredra
  • regardezergardez · reagrdez · regadrez · regarddez · regardezz · regardze · regaredz · regarrdez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "regardera" for "regardez" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.ɡaʁ.də.ʁa\ versus \ʁə.ɡaʁ.de\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "regardera" or "regardez"?
"regardez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,402 in our French list, against #27,936 for "regardera". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "regardera" and "regardez" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "regardera" 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 #317,303 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "regardera" and "regardez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "regardées vs regardera". 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 #317,303 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