réglagevsrelaxéTell them apart

Quick tell: réglage is a noun, relaxé is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“réglage” is a noun and “relaxé” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#18,582
“réglage” frequency rank
#33,435
“relaxé” frequency rank
52017
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature réglage relaxé
Definition Action de régler (par exemple une montre, un moteur, un tir d’artillerie…), ou résultat de cette action. Muscles, des tendons qui ont perdu de leur tension naturelle.

Letter map: réglage vs relaxé

Shared letters muted; letters that set réglage and relaxé apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. réglage runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against relaxé's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
réglage
6 ch
relaxé

Part-of-speech tell for réglage / relaxé

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: réglage is anoun and relaxéanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52017, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

réglage is recorded at frequency rank #18,582, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁe.ɡlaʒ\. relaxé is at rank #33,435, tagged as anadj.

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 52017, this pair ranks #150,786 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of réglage vs relaxé

Shared letters: aelré. Private to "réglage": g. Private to "relaxé": x.

"réglage" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "relaxé" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "réglage" and "relaxé" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "réglage" is a noun and "relaxé" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "réglage" or "relaxé" show up more?
"réglage" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,582 in our French list, against #33,435 for "relaxé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "réglage" and "relaxé". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "réglage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "relaxé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #150,786 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "réglage" and "relaxé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "relatés vs relaxé". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #150,786 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