réintégrévsréintégrerTell them apart

Which to use

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

#29,129
“réintégré” frequency rank
#23,016
“réintégrer” frequency rank
52145
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature réintégré réintégrer
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de réintégrer. Remettre, rétablir quelqu’un dans la possession d’une chose dont il avait été dépossédé.

Same sound, different letters: réintégré vs réintégrer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. réintégré runs 9 letters (CVVCCVCCV) against réintégrer's 10 (CVVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
réintégré
10 ch
réintégrer

Ear matches; page differs - réintégré and réintégrer

This is the hard kind. réintégré and réintégrer are pronounced identically (\ʁe.ɛ̃.te.ɡʁe\) 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 52145, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

réintégré is recorded at frequency rank #29,129, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁe.ɛ̃.te.ɡʁe\. réintégrer is at rank #23,016, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁe.ɛ̃.te.ɡʁe\.

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 52145, this pair ranks #149,846 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of réintégré vs réintégrer

Shared letters: ginrté. Private to "réintégré": -. Private to "réintégrer": e.

"réintégré" · 9 letters · shape CVVCCVCCV  ·  "réintégrer" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "réintégré" and "réintégrer" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁe.ɛ̃.te.ɡʁe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "réintégré" or "réintégrer" show up more?
"réintégrer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,016 in our French list, against #29,129 for "réintégré". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "réintégré" / "réintégrer". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "réintégré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "réintégrer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #149,846 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "réintégré" and "réintégrer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "réintégré vs réitéré". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #149,846 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