documentéevsdocumenterWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#29,727
“documentée” frequency rank
#24,547
“documenter” frequency rank
54274
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature documentée documenter
Definition Féminin singulier de documenté. Appuyer de documents.

Same sound, different letters: documentée vs documenter

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.

10 ch
documentée
10 ch
documenter

Same sound, different spelling - documentée / documenter

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: documentée and documenter 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54274, 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\. documenter is at rank #24,547, 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 54274, this pair ranks #135,133 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of documentée vs documenter

Shared letters: cdemnotu. Private to "documentée": é. Private to "documenter": r.

"documentée" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVV  ·  "documenter" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • documenterdcoumenter · ddocumenter · doccumenter · docmuenter · docuemnter · documenetr · documennter · documenterr

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "documentée" and "documenter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "documentée" is an adjective and "documenter" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "documentée" or "documenter"?
"documenter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,547 in our French list, against #29,727 for "documentée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"documentée" and "documenter" 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 "documenter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #135,133 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "documentée" and "documenter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "documentée vs documentées". 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 #135,133 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