téléchargéevstéléchargezWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#45,365
“téléchargée” frequency rank
#24,419
“téléchargez” frequency rank
69784
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature téléchargée téléchargez
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de télécharger. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de télécharger.

Same sound, different letters: téléchargée vs téléchargez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. téléchargée (CVCVCCVCCVV) and téléchargez (CVCVCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

11 ch
téléchargée
11 ch
téléchargez

Ear matches; page differs - téléchargée and téléchargez

This is the hard kind. téléchargée and téléchargez 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69784, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

téléchargée is recorded at frequency rank #45,365, classified as averb, pronounced \te.le.ʃaʁ.ʒe\. téléchargez is at rank #24,419, 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 69784, this pair ranks #53,831 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of téléchargée vs téléchargez

Shared letters: aceghlrté. Private to "téléchargée": -. Private to "téléchargez": z.

"téléchargée" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVV  ·  "téléchargez" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "téléchargée" and "téléchargez" be used interchangeably?
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.
In ordinary French text, does "téléchargée" or "téléchargez" show up more?
"téléchargez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,419 in our French list, against #45,365 for "téléchargée". 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 "téléchargée" / "téléchargez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "téléchargée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "téléchargez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #53,831 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "téléchargée" and "téléchargez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "téléchargé vs téléchargée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #53,831 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