Which to use
“imaginais” and “imaginées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,645
- “imaginais” frequency rank
- #41,829
- “imaginées” frequency rank
- 58474
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | imaginais | imaginées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de imaginer. | Participe passé féminin pluriel de imaginer. |
Where the eye mixes imaginais and imaginées
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. imaginais and imaginées follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between imaginais and imaginées
A purely visual mix-up. imaginais (\i.ma.ʒi.nɛ\) and imaginées (\i.ma.ʒi.ne\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58474, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
imaginais is recorded at frequency rank #16,645, classified as averb, pronounced \i.ma.ʒi.nɛ\. imaginées is at rank #41,829, tagged as averb, pronounced \i.ma.ʒi.ne\.
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 58474, this pair ranks #108,874 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of imaginais vs imaginées
Shared letters: agimns. Private to "imaginais": -. Private to "imaginées": eé.
"imaginais" · 9 letters · shape VCVCVCVVC · "imaginées" · 9 letters · shape VCVCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- imaginais ← iamginais · imagginais · imagianis · imaginaiss · imaginasi · imaginias · imaginnais · imagniais
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "imaginais" and "imaginées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "imaginais" or "imaginées" show up more?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "imaginais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "imaginées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #108,874 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "imaginais" and "imaginées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "imaginais vs imaginatif". 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 #108,874 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.