Which to use
“surveillée” and “surveillez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,167
- “surveillée” frequency rank
- #33,479
- “surveillez” frequency rank
- 52646
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | surveillée | surveillez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de surveiller. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de surveiller. |
Same sound, different letters: surveillée vs surveillez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. surveillée (CVCCVVCCVV) and surveillez (CVCCVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Homophone desk: surveillée vs surveillez
This is the hard kind. surveillée and surveillez are pronounced identically (\syʁ.ve.je\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52646, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
surveillée is recorded at frequency rank #19,167, classified as averb, pronounced \syʁ.ve.je\. surveillez is at rank #33,479, tagged as averb, pronounced \syʁ.ve.je\.
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 52646, this pair ranks #146,232 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of surveillée vs surveillez
Shared letters: eilrsuv. Private to "surveillée": é. Private to "surveillez": z.
"surveillée" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVVCCVV · "surveillez" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- surveillez ← sruveillez · ssurveillez · surevillez · surrveillez · surveilelz · surveilez · surveillezz · surveillze
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "surveillée" and "surveillez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "surveillée" or "surveillez" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "surveillée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "surveillez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #146,232 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "surveillée" and "surveillez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "surveillées vs surveillez". 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 #146,232 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.