Which to use
“suspectée” and “suspecter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #44,759
- “suspectée” frequency rank
- #42,638
- “suspecter” frequency rank
- 87397
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | suspectée | suspecter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de suspecter. | Soupçonner ; tenir pour suspect. |
Same sound, different letters: suspectée vs suspecter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Homophone desk: suspectée vs suspecter
This is the hard kind. suspectée and suspecter 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87397, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
suspectée is recorded at frequency rank #44,759, classified as averb, pronounced \sys.pɛk.te\. suspecter is at rank #42,638, 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 87397, this pair ranks #8,345 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of suspectée vs suspecter
Shared letters: cepstu. Private to "suspectée": é. Private to "suspecter": r.
"suspectée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV · "suspecter" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- suspecter ← ssupecter · ssuspecter · supsecter · susepcter · suspceter · suspeccter · suspecetr · suspecterr
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "suspectée" for "suspecter" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "suspectée" or "suspecter" show up more?
What to do next
"suspectée" and "suspecter" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "suspectée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "suspecter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #8,345 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "suspectée" and "suspecter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "suspectée vs suspectés". 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 #8,345 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.