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Which to use

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

#21,841
“alimentée” frequency rank
#35,801
“alimentées” frequency rank
57642
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature alimentée alimentées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe alimenter. Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe alimenter.

Same sound, different letters: alimentée vs alimentées

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

9 ch
alimentée
10 ch
alimentées

Same sound, different spelling - alimentée / alimentées

This is the hard kind. alimentée and alimentées are pronounced identically (\a.li.mɑ̃.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 differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “alimentée” sits inside “alimentées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57642, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

alimentée is recorded at frequency rank #21,841, classified as averb, pronounced \a.li.mɑ̃.te\. alimentées is at rank #35,801, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.li.mɑ̃.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 57642, this pair ranks #113,798 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of alimentée vs alimentées

Shared letters: aeilmnté. Private to "alimentée": -. Private to "alimentées": s.

"alimentée" · 9 letters · shape VCVCVCCVV  ·  "alimentées" · 10 letters · shape VCVCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "alimentée" and "alimentées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.li.mɑ̃.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "alimentée" vs "alimentées" - which ranks higher?
"alimentée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,841 in our French list, against #35,801 for "alimentées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"alimentée" and "alimentées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "alimentée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "alimentées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #113,798 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "alimentée" and "alimentées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "alimentées vs augmentées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #113,798 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