endommagéesvsendommagerWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#30,589
“endommagées” frequency rank
#25,304
“endommager” frequency rank
55893
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature endommagées endommager
Definition Féminin pluriel de endommagé. Mettre une chose en mauvais état en lui faisant subir quelque dommage.

Same sound, different letters: endommagées vs endommager

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. endommagées runs 11 letters (VCCVCCVCVVC) against endommager's 10 (VCCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
endommagées
10 ch
endommager

Same sound, different spelling - endommagées / endommager

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: endommagées and endommager carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ɑ̃.dɔ.ma.ʒe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 55893, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

endommagées is recorded at frequency rank #30,589, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.dɔ.ma.ʒe\. endommager is at rank #25,304, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.dɔ.ma.ʒe\.

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 55893, this pair ranks #124,523 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of endommagées vs endommager

Shared letters: adegmno. Private to "endommagées": sé. Private to "endommager": r.

"endommagées" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVVC  ·  "endommager" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • endommager ← ednommager · enddommager · endmomager · endomager · endomamger · endommaegr · endommagerr · endommagger

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "endommagées" for "endommager" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "endommagées" is an adjective and "endommager" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "endommagées" or "endommager" show up more?
"endommager" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,304 in our French list, against #30,589 for "endommagées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "endommagées" / "endommager". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "endommagées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "endommager" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #124,523 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "endommagées" and "endommager" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "endommagée vs endommagées". 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 #124,523 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