imaginéesvsimaginerWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#41,829
“imaginées” frequency rank
#2,481
“imaginer” frequency rank
44310
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature imaginées imaginer
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel de imaginer. Se représenter quelque chose dans l’esprit.

Same sound, different letters: imaginées vs imaginer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. imaginées runs 9 letters (VCVCVCVVC) against imaginer's 8 (VCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
imaginées
8 ch
imaginer

Homophone desk: imaginées vs imaginer

This is the hard kind. imaginées and imaginer 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44310, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

imaginées is recorded at frequency rank #41,829, classified as averb, pronounced \i.ma.ʒi.ne\. imaginer is at rank #2,481, 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 44310, this pair ranks #211,422 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of imaginées vs imaginer

Shared letters: aegimn. Private to "imaginées": . Private to "imaginer": r.

"imaginées" · 9 letters · shape VCVCVCVVC  ·  "imaginer" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • imagineriamginer · imagginer · imagienr · imaginerr · imaginner · imaginre · imagnier · imaigner

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "imaginées" for "imaginer" 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.
Which is more common, "imaginées" or "imaginer"?
"imaginer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,481 in our French list, against #41,829 for "imaginées". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "imaginées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "imaginer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #211,422 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "imaginées" and "imaginer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "imaginée vs imaginées". 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 #211,422 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