Which to use
“enchanté” and “enchantée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,870
- “enchanté” frequency rank
- #19,276
- “enchantée” frequency rank
- 35146
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | enchanté | enchantée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Où tout semble magiquement disposé pour le plaisir des sens. | Féminin singulier de enchanté. |
Same sound, different letters: enchanté vs enchantée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. enchanté runs 8 letters (VCCCVCCV) against enchantée's 9 (VCCCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: enchanté vs enchantée
This is the hard kind. enchanté and enchantée are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.te\) and both work as anadjective. 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 extra letter(s) - “enchanté” sits inside “enchantée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35146, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
enchanté is recorded at frequency rank #15,870, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.te\. enchantée is at rank #19,276, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃.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 35146, this pair ranks #278,822 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of enchanté vs enchantée
Shared letters: acehnté. Private to "enchanté": -. Private to "enchantée": -.
"enchanté" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVCCV · "enchantée" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "enchanté" and "enchantée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "enchanté" or "enchantée" show up more?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "enchanté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "enchantée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #278,822 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "enchanté" and "enchantée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "échangée vs enchantée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #278,822 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.