Which to use
“enflammées” is an adjective and “enflamment” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #46,142
- “enflammées” frequency rank
- #46,744
- “enflamment” frequency rank
- 92886
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | enflammées | enflamment |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de enflammé. | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de enflammer. |
Where the eye mixes enflammées and enflamment
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. enflammées (VCCCVCCVVC) and enflamment (VCCCVCCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Look-alike desk: enflammées vs enflamment
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: enflammées is \ɑ̃.fla.me\ while enflamment is \ɑ̃.flam\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 92886, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
enflammées is recorded at frequency rank #46,142, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.fla.me\. enflamment is at rank #46,744, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.flam\.
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 92886, this pair ranks #2,673 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of enflammées vs enflamment
Shared letters: aeflmn. Private to "enflammées": sé. Private to "enflamment": t.
"enflammées" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCCVVC · "enflamment" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- enflamment ← efnlamment · enfalmment · enfflamment · enflamemnt · enflament · enflammennt · enflammentt · enflammetn
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "enflammées" for "enflamment" ever safe?
Frequency check: "enflammées" vs "enflamment" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "enflammées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "enflamment" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #2,673 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "enflammées" and "enflamment" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "enflamment vs enflammés". 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 #2,673 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.