Which to use
“imagine” and “imaginée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,524
- “imagine” frequency rank
- #21,655
- “imaginée” frequency rank
- 23179
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | imagine | imaginée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de imaginer. | Participe passé féminin singulier de imaginer. |
Where the eye mixes imagine and imaginée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. imagine runs 7 letters (VCVCVCV) against imaginée's 8 (VCVCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between imagine and imaginée
A purely visual mix-up. imagine (\i.ma.ʒin\) and imaginée (\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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23179, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
imagine is recorded at frequency rank #1,524, classified as averb, pronounced \i.ma.ʒin\. imaginée is at rank #21,655, 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 23179, this pair ranks #353,924 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of imagine vs imaginée
Shared letters: aegimn. Private to "imagine": -. Private to "imaginée": é.
"imagine" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCV · "imaginée" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- imagine ← iamgine · imaggine · imagien · imaginne · imagnie · imaigne · imgaine · immagine
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "imagine" and "imaginée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "imagine" vs "imaginée" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "imagine" and "imaginée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "imagine" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "imaginée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #353,924 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "imagine" and "imaginée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "imagée vs imaginée". 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 #353,924 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.