imaginéevsimaginéesConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#21,655
“imaginée” frequency rank
#41,829
“imaginées” frequency rank
63484
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature imaginée imaginées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de imaginer. Participe passé féminin pluriel de imaginer.

Same sound, different letters: imaginée vs imaginées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. imaginée runs 8 letters (VCVCVCVV) against imaginées's 9 (VCVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
imaginée
9 ch
imaginées

Same sound, different spelling - imaginée / imaginées

This is the hard kind. imaginée and imaginées are pronounced identically (\i.ma.ʒi.ne\) 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) - “imaginée” sits inside “imaginées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63484, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

imaginée is recorded at frequency rank #21,655, classified as averb, pronounced \i.ma.ʒi.ne\. 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 63484, this pair ranks #81,730 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of imaginée vs imaginées

Shared letters: aegimné. Private to "imaginée": -. Private to "imaginées": s.

"imaginée" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVV  ·  "imaginées" · 9 letters · shape VCVCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "imaginée" for "imaginées" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\i.ma.ʒi.ne\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "imaginée" vs "imaginées" - which ranks higher?
"imaginée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,655 in our French list, against #41,829 for "imaginées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "imaginée" / "imaginées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "imaginée" 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 #81,730 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "imaginée" and "imaginées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "imagée vs imaginée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #81,730 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