Which to use
“imagine” and “imagines” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,524
- “imagine” frequency rank
- #10,720
- “imagines” frequency rank
- 12244
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | imagine | imagines |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de imaginer. | Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de imaginer. |
Same sound, different letters: imagine vs imagines
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. imagine runs 7 letters (VCVCVCV) against imagines's 8 (VCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - imagine and imagines
This is the hard kind. imagine and imagines are pronounced identically (\i.ma.ʒin\) 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 differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “imagine” sits inside “imagines”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12244, 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\. imagines is at rank #10,720, tagged as averb, pronounced \i.ma.ʒin\.
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 12244, this pair ranks #406,044 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of imagine vs imagines
Shared letters: aegimn. Private to "imagine": -. Private to "imagines": s.
"imagine" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVCV · "imagines" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "imagine" and "imagines" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "imagine" or "imagines" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "imagine" / "imagines". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "imagine" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "imagines" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #406,044 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "imagine" and "imagines" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "imaginées vs imagines". 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 #406,044 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.