regardsvsréparésWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: regards is a noun, réparés is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“regards” is a noun and “réparés” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#5,698
“regards” frequency rank
#41,516
“réparés” frequency rank
47214
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature regards réparés
Definition Pluriel de regard. Participe passé masculin pluriel de réparer.

Where the eye mixes regards and réparés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

7 ch
regards
7 ch
réparés

Look-alike desk: regards vs réparés

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: regards is \ʁə.ɡaʁ\ while réparés is \ʁe.pa.ʁe\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47214, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

regards is recorded at frequency rank #5,698, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.ɡaʁ\. réparés is at rank #41,516, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁe.pa.ʁe\.

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 47214, this pair ranks #188,654 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of regards vs réparés

Shared letters: ars. Private to "regards": deg. Private to "réparés": .

"regards" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC  ·  "réparés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • regardsergards · reagrds · regadrs · regardds · regardss · regarrds · regarsd · reggards

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "regards" and "réparés" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "regards" is a noun and "réparés" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "regards" or "réparés" show up more?
"regards" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,698 in our French list, against #41,516 for "réparés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "regards" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "réparés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #188,654 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "regards" and "réparés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "relatés vs réparés". 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 #188,654 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