endommagervsendommagésWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#25,304
“endommager” frequency rank
#22,554
“endommagés” frequency rank
47858
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Same sound, different letters: endommager vs endommagés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. endommager and endommagés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

10 ch
endommager
10 ch
endommagés

Ear matches; page differs - endommager and endommagés

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: endommager and endommagés carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ɑ̃.dɔ.ma.ʒe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47858, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

endommager is recorded at frequency rank #25,304, classified as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.dɔ.ma.ʒe\. endommagés is at rank #22,554, tagged as anadj, 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 47858, this pair ranks #183,593 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of endommager vs endommagés

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

"endommager" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVC  ·  "endommagés" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "endommager" for "endommagés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "endommager" is a verb and "endommagés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "endommager" or "endommagés" show up more?
"endommagés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,554 in our French list, against #25,304 for "endommager". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "endommager" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "endommagés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #183,593 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "endommager" and "endommagés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "endommagées vs endommager". 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 #183,593 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