documentéevsdocumentéesWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#29,727
“documentée” frequency rank
#46,705
“documentées” frequency rank
76432
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature documentée documentées
Definition Féminin singulier de documenté. Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe documenter.

Same sound, different letters: documentée vs documentées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. documentée runs 10 letters (CVCVCVCCVV) against documentées's 11 (CVCVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
documentée
11 ch
documentées

Ear matches; page differs - documentée and documentées

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: documentée and documentées carry the same recorded pronunciation, \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te\. 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 extra letter(s) - “documentée” sits inside “documentées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76432, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

documentée is recorded at frequency rank #29,727, classified as anadj, pronounced \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te\. documentées is at rank #46,705, tagged as averb, pronounced \dɔ.ky.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 76432, this pair ranks #31,171 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of documentée vs documentées

Shared letters: cdemnotué. Private to "documentée": -. Private to "documentées": s.

"documentée" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVV  ·  "documentées" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "documentée" and "documentées" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "documentée" is an adjective and "documentées" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "documentée" vs "documentées" - which ranks higher?
"documentée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,727 in our French list, against #46,705 for "documentées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "documentée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "documentées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #31,171 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "documentée" and "documentées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "documente vs documentées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #31,171 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