suspectévssuspectéeWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#20,581
“suspecté” frequency rank
#44,759
“suspectée” frequency rank
65340
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature suspecté suspectée
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de suspecter. Participe passé féminin singulier de suspecter.

Same sound, different letters: suspecté vs suspectée

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

8 ch
suspecté
9 ch
suspectée

Ear matches; page differs - suspecté and suspectée

This is the hard kind. suspecté and suspectée are pronounced identically (\sys.pɛk.te\) 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 extra letter(s) - “suspecté” sits inside “suspectée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65340, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

suspecté is recorded at frequency rank #20,581, classified as averb, pronounced \sys.pɛk.te\. suspectée is at rank #44,759, tagged as averb, pronounced \sys.pɛk.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 65340, this pair ranks #72,824 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of suspecté vs suspectée

Shared letters: cepstué. Private to "suspecté": -. Private to "suspectée": -.

"suspecté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "suspectée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "suspecté" and "suspectée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\sys.pɛk.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: "suspecté" vs "suspectée" - which ranks higher?
"suspecté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,581 in our French list, against #44,759 for "suspectée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "suspecté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "suspectée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #72,824 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "suspecté" and "suspectée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "suspectée vs suspecter". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #72,824 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