corrigévscorrigerWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: corrigé is a adjective, corriger is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#11,200
“corrigé” frequency rank
#5,744
“corriger” frequency rank
16944
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature corrigé corriger
Definition Qui reprend les corrections, les réponses. Rectifier, améliorer conformément à une règle, à des règles.

Same sound, different letters: corrigé vs corriger

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. corrigé runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against corriger's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
corrigé
8 ch
corriger

Ear matches; page differs - corrigé and corriger

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: corrigé and corriger carry the same recorded pronunciation, \kɔ.ʁi.ʒe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16944, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

corrigé is recorded at frequency rank #11,200, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ.ʁi.ʒe\. corriger is at rank #5,744, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ.ʁi.ʒe\.

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 16944, this pair ranks #385,524 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of corrigé vs corriger

Shared letters: cgior. Private to "corrigé": é. Private to "corriger": e.

"corrigé" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "corriger" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • corriger ← ccorriger · coriger · corirger · corrgier · corriegr · corrigerr · corrigger · corrigre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "corrigé" and "corriger" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "corrigé" is an adjective and "corriger" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "corrigé" or "corriger" show up more?
"corriger" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,744 in our French list, against #11,200 for "corrigé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "corrigé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "corriger" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #385,524 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "corrigé" and "corriger" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "corrigé vs corrigent". 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 #385,524 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