envisagéevsenvisagezConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#12,563
“envisagée” frequency rank
#34,525
“envisagez” frequency rank
47088
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature envisagée envisagez
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de envisager. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de envisager.

Same sound, different letters: envisagée vs envisagez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. envisagée (VCCVCVCVV) and envisagez (VCCVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

9 ch
envisagée
9 ch
envisagez

Same sound, different spelling - envisagée / envisagez

This is the hard kind. envisagée and envisagez are pronounced identically (\ɑ̃.vi.za.ʒe\) 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 47088, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

envisagée is recorded at frequency rank #12,563, classified as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.vi.za.ʒe\. envisagez is at rank #34,525, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.vi.za.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 47088, this pair ranks #189,744 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of envisagée vs envisagez

Shared letters: aeginsv. Private to "envisagée": é. Private to "envisagez": z.

"envisagée" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVV  ·  "envisagez" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • envisagez ← enivsagez · ennvisagez · enviasgez · envisaegz · envisagezz · envisaggez · envisagze · envisgaez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "envisagée" for "envisagez" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɑ̃.vi.za.ʒe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "envisagée" vs "envisagez" - which ranks higher?
"envisagée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,563 in our French list, against #34,525 for "envisagez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "envisagée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "envisagez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #189,744 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "envisagée" and "envisagez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "envisagées vs envisagez". 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 #189,744 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