démontagevsdémontréeWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: démontage is a noun, démontrée is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“démontage” is a noun and “démontrée” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#32,794
“démontage” frequency rank
#24,558
“démontrée” frequency rank
57352
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature démontage démontrée
Definition Action de démonter, de désassembler. Féminin singulier de démontré.

Where the eye mixes démontage and démontrée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. démontage (CVCVCCVCV) and démontrée (CVCVCCCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

9 ch
démontage
9 ch
démontrée

Visual trap between démontage and démontrée

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: démontage is \de.mɔ̃.taʒ\ while démontrée is \de.mɔ̃.tʁe\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57352, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

démontage is recorded at frequency rank #32,794, classified as anoun, pronounced \de.mɔ̃.taʒ\. démontrée is at rank #24,558, tagged as anadj, pronounced \de.mɔ̃.tʁe\.

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 57352, this pair ranks #115,559 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of démontage vs démontrée

Shared letters: demnoté. Private to "démontage": ag. Private to "démontrée": r.

"démontage" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV  ·  "démontrée" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "démontage" and "démontrée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "démontage" is a noun and "démontrée" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "démontage" or "démontrée"?
"démontrée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,558 in our French list, against #32,794 for "démontage". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "démontage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "démontrée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #115,559 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "démontage" and "démontrée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "démontage vs démontée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #115,559 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