remplacévsremplacezWhich spelling fits?

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

#3,796
“remplacé” frequency rank
#34,720
“remplacez” frequency rank
38516
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remplacé remplacez
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de remplacer. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de remplacer.

Same sound, different letters: remplacé vs remplacez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. remplacé runs 8 letters (CVCCCVCV) against remplacez's 9 (CVCCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
remplacé
9 ch
remplacez

Homophone desk: remplacé vs remplacez

This is the hard kind. remplacé and remplacez are pronounced identically (\ʁɑ̃.pla.se\) 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 38516, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remplacé is recorded at frequency rank #3,796, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pla.se\. remplacez is at rank #34,720, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pla.se\.

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 38516, this pair ranks #254,733 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remplacé vs remplacez

Shared letters: acelmpr. Private to "remplacé": é. Private to "remplacez": z.

"remplacé" · 8 letters · shape CVCCCVCV  ·  "remplacez" · 9 letters · shape CVCCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remplacez ← ermplacez · remlpacez · remmplacez · rempalcez · remplaccez · remplacezz · remplacze · remplaecz

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "remplacé" and "remplacez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁɑ̃.pla.se\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "remplacé" vs "remplacez" - which ranks higher?
"remplacé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,796 in our French list, against #34,720 for "remplacez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "remplacé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remplacez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #254,733 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remplacé" and "remplacez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remplacez vs replacé". 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 #254,733 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