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Which to use

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

#19,533
“emmenée” frequency rank
#6,817
“emmener” frequency rank
26350
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature emmenée emmener
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de emmener. Mener du lieu où l’on est vers un autre lieu ; utilisé plutôt en parlant de personnes ou d’objets capables de se déplacer, comme par exemple des véhicules.

Same sound, different letters: emmenée vs emmener

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. emmenée (VCCVCVV) and emmener (VCCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
emmenée
7 ch
emmener

Homophone desk: emmenée vs emmener

This is the hard kind. emmenée and emmener are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.mə.ne\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26350, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

emmenée is recorded at frequency rank #19,533, classified as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.mə.ne\. emmener is at rank #6,817, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.mə.ne\.

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 26350, this pair ranks #335,558 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of emmenée vs emmener

Shared letters: emn. Private to "emmenée": é. Private to "emmener": r.

"emmenée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV  ·  "emmener" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • emmener ← ememner · emener · emmeenr · emmenerr · emmenner · emmenre · emmneer · memener

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "emmenée" for "emmener" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɑ̃.mə.ne\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "emmenée" vs "emmener" - which ranks higher?
"emmener" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,817 in our French list, against #19,533 for "emmenée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "emmenée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "emmener" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #335,558 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "emmenée" and "emmener" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "emmenée vs emmènes". 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 #335,558 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