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Which to use

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

#15,564
“aménager” frequency rank
#22,480
“aménagés” frequency rank
38044
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aménager aménagés
Definition Disposer pour un usage déterminé ou précis. Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe aménager.

Same sound, different letters: aménager vs aménagés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. aménager and aménagés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
aménager
8 ch
aménagés

Ear matches; page differs - aménager and aménagés

This is the hard kind. aménager and aménagés 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 38044, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aménager is recorded at frequency rank #15,564, classified as averb, pronounced \a.me.na.ʒe\. aménagés is at rank #22,480, 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 38044, this pair ranks #258,062 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of aménager vs aménagés

Shared letters: agmné. Private to "aménager": er. Private to "aménagés": s.

"aménager" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC  ·  "aménagés" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "aménager" and "aménagés" be used interchangeably?
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.
Frequency check: "aménager" vs "aménagés" - which ranks higher?
"aménager" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,564 in our French list, against #22,480 for "aménagés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aménager" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aménagés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #258,062 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aménager" and "aménagés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aménagés vs amenées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #258,062 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