commentéesvscommentésConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#36,317
“commentées” frequency rank
#36,768
“commentés” frequency rank
73085
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature commentées commentés
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel de commenter. Participe passé masculin pluriel de commenter.

Same sound, different letters: commentées vs commentés

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

10 ch
commentées
9 ch
commentés

Ear matches; page differs - commentées and commentés

This is the hard kind. commentées and commentés 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 73085, 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\. commentés is at rank #36,768, 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 73085, this pair ranks #41,675 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of commentées vs commentés

Shared letters: cemnosté. Private to "commentées": -. Private to "commentés": -.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "commentées" and "commentés" 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.
Frequency check: "commentées" vs "commentés" - which ranks higher?
"commentées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,317 in our French list, against #36,768 for "commentés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"commentées" and "commentés" 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 "commentés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #41,675 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "commentées" and "commentés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commencées vs commentés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #41,675 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