mentionné
\mɑ̃.sjɔ.ne\
The verdict
“mentionné” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,940 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #3,940
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de mentionner.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mentionné |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɑ̃.sjɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mentionné” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mentionné is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ̃.sjɔ.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,940 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Participe passé masculin singulier de mentionner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mentionné, with forms such as "emntionné", "menitonné", and "menntionné". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "mentions", "mentionner", "mentionnés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mentionné, spelled M-E-N-T-I-O-N-N-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de mentionner.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emntionné,menitonné,menntionné,mentinoné,mentionne,mentioné,mentionén,mentoinné,menttionné,metnionné,mmentionné,mnetionné
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mentionné - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mentionné”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-N-T-I-O-N-N-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɑ̃.sjɔ.ne\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “mentions” - see the side-by-side comparison. mentionné vs mentions
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.