donnéevsdonnerezConfusable pair

Quick tell: donnée is a noun, donnerez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“donnée” is a noun and “donnerez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,514
“donnée” frequency rank
#38,755
“donnerez” frequency rank
41269
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature donnée donnerez
Definition Information sur un sujet particulier, qui, avec d’autres données, sert de base à la réflexion ou l'étude de ce sujet. Deuxième personne du pluriel du futur de donner.

Where the eye mixes donnée and donnerez

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. donnée runs 6 letters (CVCCVV) against donnerez's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
donnée
8 ch
donnerez

Visual trap between donnée and donnerez

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: donnée is \dɔ.ne\ while donnerez is \dɔ.nə.ʁe\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41269, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

donnée is recorded at frequency rank #2,514, classified as anoun, pronounced \dɔ.ne\. donnerez is at rank #38,755, tagged as averb, pronounced \dɔ.nə.ʁe\.

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 41269, this pair ranks #234,342 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of donnée vs donnerez

Shared letters: deno. Private to "donnée": é. Private to "donnerez": rz.

"donnée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV  ·  "donnerez" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • donnerezddonnerez · dnonerez · donenrez · donerez · donneerz · donnerezz · donnerrez · donnerze

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "donnée" for "donnerez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "donnée" is a noun and "donnerez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "donnée" or "donnerez" show up more?
"donnée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,514 in our French list, against #38,755 for "donnerez". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "donnée" and "donnerez" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "donnée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "donnerez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #234,342 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "donnée" and "donnerez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "donnerez vs donniez". 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 #234,342 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