aimentvsAumontWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: aiment is a verb, Aumont is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“aiment” is a verb and “Aumont” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,210
“aiment” frequency rank
#38,658
“Aumont” frequency rank
40868
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aiment Aumont
Definition Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe aimer. Nom de famille français.

Where the eye mixes aiment and Aumont

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. aiment and Aumont follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VVCVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
aiment
6 ch
Aumont

Visual trap between aiment and Aumont

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: aiment is \ɛm\ while Aumont is \o.mɔ̃\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs name), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40868, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aiment is recorded at frequency rank #2,210, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛm\. Aumont is at rank #38,658, tagged as aname, pronounced \o.mɔ̃\.

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 40868, this pair ranks #237,307 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of aiment vs Aumont

Shared letters: amnt. Private to "aiment": ei. Private to "Aumont": ou.

"aiment" · 6 letters · shape VVCVCC  ·  "Aumont" · 6 letters · shape VVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aiment ← aiemnt · aimennt · aimentt · aimetn · aimment · aimnet · amient · iament
  • Aumont ← amuont · aummont · aumnot · aumonnt · aumontt · aumotn · auomnt · uamont

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "aiment" for "Aumont" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aiment" is a verb and "Aumont" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "aiment" or "Aumont" show up more?
"aiment" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,210 in our French list, against #38,658 for "Aumont". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "aiment" and "Aumont" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aiment" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Aumont" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #237,307 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aiment" and "Aumont" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "almost vs Aumont". 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 #237,307 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