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

#21,655
“imaginée” frequency rank
#5,252
“imaginez” frequency rank
26907
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature imaginée imaginez
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de imaginer. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de imaginer.

Same sound, different letters: imaginée vs imaginez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. imaginée (VCVCVCVV) and imaginez (VCVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
imaginée
8 ch
imaginez

Homophone desk: imaginée vs imaginez

This is the hard kind. imaginée and imaginez 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26907, 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\. imaginez is at rank #5,252, 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 26907, this pair ranks #332,125 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of imaginée vs imaginez

Shared letters: aegimn. Private to "imaginée": é. Private to "imaginez": z.

"imaginée" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVV  ·  "imaginez" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • imagineziamginez · imagginez · imagienz · imaginezz · imaginnez · imaginze · imagniez · imaignez

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "imaginée" and "imaginez" be used interchangeably?
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.
Which is more common, "imaginée" or "imaginez"?
"imaginez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,252 in our French list, against #21,655 for "imaginée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "imaginée" / "imaginez". 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 "imaginez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #332,125 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "imaginée" and "imaginez" 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 #332,125 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