immergéevsimmergerConfusable pair

Quick tell: immergée is a adjective, immerger is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“immergée” is an adjective and “immerger” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#43,982
“immergée” frequency rank
#42,935
“immerger” frequency rank
86917
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature immergée immerger
Definition Féminin singulier de immergé. Plonger dans l’eau ou dans tout autre liquide, voire tout autre gaz.

Same sound, different letters: immergée vs immerger

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

8 ch
immergée
8 ch
immerger

Ear matches; page differs - immergée and immerger

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: immergée and immerger carry the same recorded pronunciation, \i.mɛʁ.ʒe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 86917, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

immergée is recorded at frequency rank #43,982, classified as anadj, pronounced \i.mɛʁ.ʒe\. immerger is at rank #42,935, tagged as averb, pronounced \i.mɛʁ.ʒe\.

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 86917, this pair ranks #9,006 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of immergée vs immerger

Shared letters: egimr. Private to "immergée": é. Private to "immerger": -.

"immergée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV  ·  "immerger" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • immerger ← imemrger · imerger · immegrer · immeregr · immergerr · immergger · immergre · immerrger

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "immergée" for "immerger" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "immergée" is an adjective and "immerger" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "immergée" or "immerger" show up more?
"immerger" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #42,935 in our French list, against #43,982 for "immergée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"immergée" and "immerger" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "immergée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "immerger" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #9,006 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "immergée" and "immerger" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "immergée vs immergés". 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 #9,006 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