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

#23,006
“rejetées” frequency rank
#19,649
“rejetés” frequency rank
42655
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rejetées rejetés
Definition Féminin pluriel de rejeté. Masculin pluriel de rejeté.

Same sound, different letters: rejetées vs rejetés

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

8 ch
rejetées
7 ch
rejetés

Homophone desk: rejetées vs rejetés

This is the hard kind. rejetées and rejetés are pronounced identically (\ʁə.ʒə.te\) and both work as anadjective. 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 42655, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rejetées is recorded at frequency rank #23,006, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.ʒə.te\. rejetés is at rank #19,649, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.ʒə.te\.

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 42655, this pair ranks #223,971 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rejetées vs rejetés

Shared letters: ejrsté. Private to "rejetées": -. Private to "rejetés": -.

"rejetées" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC  ·  "rejetés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "rejetées" and "rejetés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.ʒə.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "rejetées" vs "rejetés" - which ranks higher?
"rejetés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,649 in our French list, against #23,006 for "rejetées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rejetées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rejetés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #223,971 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rejetées" and "rejetés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rejetés vs relatés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #223,971 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