commentéesvscommenterWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#36,317
“commentées” frequency rank
#7,167
“commenter” frequency rank
43484
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature commentées commenter
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel de commenter. Interpréter par un commentaire, par des commentaires.

Same sound, different letters: commentées vs commenter

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

10 ch
commentées
9 ch
commenter

Ear matches; page differs - commentées and commenter

This is the hard kind. commentées and commenter are pronounced identically (\kɔ.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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43484, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

commentées is recorded at frequency rank #36,317, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃.te\. commenter is at rank #7,167, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ.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 43484, this pair ranks #217,734 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of commentées vs commenter

Shared letters: cemnot. Private to "commentées": . Private to "commenter": r.

"commentées" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC  ·  "commenter" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • commenterccommenter · cmomenter · comemnter · comenter · commenetr · commennter · commenterr · commentre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "commentées" and "commenter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\kɔ.mɑ̃.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "commentées" or "commenter"?
"commenter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,167 in our French list, against #36,317 for "commentées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "commentées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "commenter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #217,734 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "commentées" and "commenter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commencées vs commentées". 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 #217,734 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