aménagéevsaménagerWhat's the difference?

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

#17,336
“aménagée” frequency rank
#15,564
“aménager” frequency rank
32900
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aménagée aménager
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe aménager. Disposer pour un usage déterminé ou précis.

Same sound, different letters: aménagée vs aménager

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. aménagée (VCVCVCVV) and aménager (VCVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
aménagée
8 ch
aménager

Same sound, different spelling - aménagée / aménager

This is the hard kind. aménagée and aménager are pronounced identically (\a.me.na.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 32900, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aménagée is recorded at frequency rank #17,336, classified as averb, pronounced \a.me.na.ʒe\. aménager is at rank #15,564, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.me.na.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 32900, this pair ranks #294,206 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of aménagée vs aménager

Shared letters: aegmné. Private to "aménagée": -. Private to "aménager": r.

"aménagée" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVV  ·  "aménager" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "aménagée" and "aménager" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.me.na.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 "aménagée" or "aménager" show up more?
"aménager" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,564 in our French list, against #17,336 for "aménagée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "aménagée" / "aménager". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aménagée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aménager" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #294,206 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aménagée" and "aménager" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aménagée vs amendée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #294,206 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