documentées vs documenter

Which to use

“documentées” and “documenter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#46,705
“documentées” frequency rank: #24,547
“documenter” frequency rank: 71252
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	documentées	documenter
Definition	Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe documenter.	Appuyer de documents.

Same sound, different letters: documentées vs documenter

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

11 ch

documentées

10 ch

documenter

Homophone desk: documentées vs documenter

This is the hard kind. documentées and documenter are pronounced identically (\dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71252, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

documentées is recorded at frequency rank #46,705, classified as averb, 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 71252, this pair ranks #48,263 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of documentées vs documenter

Shared letters: cdemnotu. Private to "documentées": sé. Private to "documenter": r.

"documentées" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVVC · "documenter" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

documenter ← dcoumenter · ddocumenter · doccumenter · docmuenter · docuemnter · documenetr · documennter · documenterr

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "documentées" and "documenter" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No. They are pronounced the same (\dɔ.ky.mɑ̃.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

In ordinary French text, does "documentées" or "documenter" show up more?

"documenter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,547 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.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "documentées" 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 #48,263 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"documentées" and "documenter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "documente 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 #48,263 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.