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Which to use

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

#16,760
“téléchargé” frequency rank
#6,570
“télécharger” frequency rank
23330
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature téléchargé télécharger
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de télécharger. Transférer, des données entre deux équipements informatiques, localement ou à travers internet.

Same sound, different letters: téléchargé vs télécharger

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. téléchargé runs 10 letters (CVCVCCVCCV) against télécharger's 11 (CVCVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
téléchargé
11 ch
télécharger

Homophone desk: téléchargé vs télécharger

This is the hard kind. téléchargé and télécharger are pronounced identically (\te.le.ʃaʁ.ʒe\) 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 23330, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

téléchargé is recorded at frequency rank #16,760, classified as averb, pronounced \te.le.ʃaʁ.ʒe\. télécharger is at rank #6,570, tagged as averb, pronounced \te.le.ʃaʁ.ʒe\.

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 23330, this pair ranks #353,133 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of téléchargé vs télécharger

Shared letters: acghlrté. Private to "téléchargé": -. Private to "télécharger": e.

"téléchargé" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCV  ·  "télécharger" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "téléchargé" and "télécharger" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\te.le.ʃaʁ.ʒe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "téléchargé" vs "télécharger" - which ranks higher?
"télécharger" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,570 in our French list, against #16,760 for "téléchargé". 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 "téléchargé" / "télécharger". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "téléchargé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "télécharger" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #353,133 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "téléchargé" and "télécharger" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "téléchargé vs téléchargée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #353,133 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