amenezvsaminésWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: amenez is a verb, aminés is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“amenez” is a verb and “aminés” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#33,111
“amenez” frequency rank
#24,470
“aminés” frequency rank
57581
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature amenez aminés
Definition Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe amener. Masculin pluriel de aminé.

Where the eye mixes amenez and aminés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. amenez and aminés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
amenez
6 ch
aminés

Look-alike desk: amenez vs aminés

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: amenez is \a.mə.ne\ while aminés is \a.mi.ne\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57581, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

amenez is recorded at frequency rank #33,111, classified as averb, pronounced \a.mə.ne\. aminés is at rank #24,470, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.mi.ne\.

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 57581, this pair ranks #114,177 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of amenez vs aminés

Shared letters: amn. Private to "amenez": ez. Private to "aminés": isé.

"amenez" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC  ·  "aminés" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • amenez ← aemnez · ameenz · amenezz · amennez · amenze · ammenez · amneez · maenez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "amenez" for "aminés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "amenez" is a verb and "aminés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "amenez" or "aminés"?
"aminés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,470 in our French list, against #33,111 for "amenez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "amenez" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aminés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #114,177 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "amenez" and "aminés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "amendée vs amenez". 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 #114,177 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