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.
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?
In ordinary French text, does "immergée" or "immerger" show up more?
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.