commercialiséevscommercialisésWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#28,489
“commercialisée” frequency rank
#24,913
“commercialisés” frequency rank
53402
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature commercialisée commercialisés
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe commercialiser. Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe commercialiser.

Same sound, different letters: commercialisée vs commercialisés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 13 letters.

14 ch
commercialisée
14 ch
commercialisés

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

This is the hard kind. commercialisée and commercialisés are pronounced identically (\kɔ.mɛʁ.sja.li.ze\) 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 a single letter - e in “commercialisée” becomes s in “commercialisés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53402, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

commercialisée is recorded at frequency rank #28,489, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ.mɛʁ.sja.li.ze\. commercialisés is at rank #24,913, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ.mɛʁ.sja.li.ze\.

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 53402, this pair ranks #140,960 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of commercialisée vs commercialisés

Shared letters: aceilmorsé. Private to "commercialisée": -. Private to "commercialisés": -.

"commercialisée" · 14 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVCVCVV  ·  "commercialisés" · 14 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "commercialisée" and "commercialisés" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\kɔ.mɛʁ.sja.li.ze\), 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, "commercialisée" or "commercialisés"?
"commercialisés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,913 in our French list, against #28,489 for "commercialisée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list