Which to use
“respiré” and “respirez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #40,466
- “respiré” frequency rank
- #39,980
- “respirez” frequency rank
- 80446
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | respiré | respirez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de respirer. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de respirer. |
Same sound, different letters: respiré vs respirez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - respiré / respirez
This is the hard kind. respiré and respirez are pronounced identically (\ʁɛs.pi.ʁe\) 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 80446, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
respiré is recorded at frequency rank #40,466, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɛs.pi.ʁe\. respirez is at rank #39,980, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁɛs.pi.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 80446, this pair ranks #20,897 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of respiré vs respirez
Shared letters: eiprs. Private to "respiré": é. Private to "respirez": z.
"respiré" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "respirez" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- respirez ← erspirez · repsirez · resiprez · respierz · respirezz · respirrez · respirze · resppirez
Frequently Asked Questions
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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 "respiré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "respirez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #20,897 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "respiré" and "respirez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "respirez vs resterez". 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 #20,897 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.