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

#20,581
“suspecté” frequency rank
#40,037
“suspectés” frequency rank
60618
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature suspecté suspectés
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de suspecter. Participe passé masculin pluriel de suspecter.

Same sound, different letters: suspecté vs suspectés

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

8 ch
suspecté
9 ch
suspectés

Ear matches; page differs - suspecté and suspectés

This is the hard kind. suspecté and suspectés 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 “suspectés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60618, 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\. suspectés is at rank #40,037, 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 60618, this pair ranks #96,693 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of suspecté vs suspectés

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

"suspecté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "suspectés" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "suspecté" for "suspectés" ever safe?
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.
Which is more common, "suspecté" or "suspectés"?
"suspecté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,581 in our French list, against #40,037 for "suspectés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "suspecté" / "suspectés". 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 "suspectés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #96,693 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "suspecté" and "suspectés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "suspectée vs suspectés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #96,693 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