coordonnéevscoordonnerTell them apart

Quick tell: coordonnée is a noun, coordonner is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“coordonnée” is a noun and “coordonner” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#24,165
“coordonnée” frequency rank
#14,647
“coordonner” frequency rank
38812
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature coordonnée coordonner
Definition Donnée sur la position, sur l’endroit ou la façon de trouver. Arranger certaines choses, en particulier des actions, entre elles pour parvenir à une fin.

Same sound, different letters: coordonnée vs coordonner

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. coordonnée (CVVCCVCCVV) and coordonner (CVVCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

10 ch
coordonnée
10 ch
coordonner

Ear matches; page differs - coordonnée and coordonner

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: coordonnée and coordonner carry the same recorded pronunciation, \kɔ.ɔʁ.dɔ.ne\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38812, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

coordonnée is recorded at frequency rank #24,165, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.ɔʁ.dɔ.ne\. coordonner is at rank #14,647, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ.ɔʁ.dɔ.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 38812, this pair ranks #252,623 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of coordonnée vs coordonner

Shared letters: cdenor. Private to "coordonnée": é. Private to "coordonner": -.

"coordonnée" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVCCVV  ·  "coordonner" · 10 letters · shape CVVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • coordonnerccoordonner · coodronner · coorddonner · coordnoner · coordonenr · coordoner · coordonnerr · coordonnre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "coordonnée" and "coordonner" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "coordonnée" is a noun and "coordonner" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "coordonnée" vs "coordonner" - which ranks higher?
"coordonner" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,647 in our French list, against #24,165 for "coordonnée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "coordonnée" / "coordonner". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "coordonnée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "coordonner" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #252,623 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "coordonnée" and "coordonner" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coordonnée vs coordonnés". 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 #252,623 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