immergervsimmergésWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#42,935
“immerger” frequency rank
#47,951
“immergés” frequency rank
90886
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature immerger immergés
Definition Plonger dans l’eau ou dans tout autre liquide, voire tout autre gaz. Masculin pluriel de immergé.

Same sound, different letters: immerger vs immergés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. immerger and immergés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
immerger
8 ch
immergés

Homophone desk: immerger vs immergés

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: immerger and immergés carry the same recorded pronunciation, \i.mɛʁ.ʒe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anadjective, 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 90886, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

immerger is recorded at frequency rank #42,935, classified as averb, pronounced \i.mɛʁ.ʒe\. immergés is at rank #47,951, tagged as anadj, 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 90886, this pair ranks #4,367 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of immerger vs immergés

Shared letters: egimr. Private to "immerger": -. Private to "immergés": sé.

"immerger" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC  ·  "immergés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "immerger" for "immergés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "immerger" is a verb and "immergés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "immerger" or "immergés"?
"immerger" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #42,935 in our French list, against #47,951 for "immergés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "immerger" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "immergés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #4,367 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "immerger" and "immergés" 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 #4,367 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