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

#17,739
“inventée” frequency rank
#33,312
“inventées” frequency rank
51051
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature inventée inventées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de inventer. Participe passé féminin pluriel de inventer.

Same sound, different letters: inventée vs inventées

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

8 ch
inventée
9 ch
inventées

Same sound, different spelling - inventée / inventées

This is the hard kind. inventée and inventées are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.vɑ̃.te\) 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 extra letter(s) - “inventée” sits inside “inventées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51051, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

inventée is recorded at frequency rank #17,739, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.vɑ̃.te\. inventées is at rank #33,312, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.vɑ̃.te\.

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 51051, this pair ranks #157,969 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of inventée vs inventées

Shared letters: eintvé. Private to "inventée": -. Private to "inventées": s.

"inventée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV  ·  "inventées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "inventée" and "inventées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛ̃.vɑ̃.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "inventée" vs "inventées" - which ranks higher?
"inventée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,739 in our French list, against #33,312 for "inventées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "inventée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "inventées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #157,969 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "inventée" and "inventées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "inventées vs inversées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #157,969 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