Which to use
“macération” and “maturation” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #44,557
- “macération” frequency rank
- #23,604
- “maturation” frequency rank
- 68161
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | macération | maturation |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Opération chimique qui consiste à laisser séjourner dans un liquide, à la température ambiante, une substance dont on veut extraire les principes solubles. | Progrès successif des fruits vers la maturité. |
Where the eye mixes macération and maturation
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. macération and maturation follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: macération vs maturation
A purely visual mix-up. macération (\ma.se.ʁa.sjɔ̃\) and maturation (\ma.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68161, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
macération is recorded at frequency rank #44,557, classified as anoun, pronounced \ma.se.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. maturation is at rank #23,604, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ma.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃\.
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 68161, this pair ranks #60,303 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of macération vs maturation
Shared letters: aimnort. Private to "macération": cé. Private to "maturation": u.
"macération" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCVVC · "maturation" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- maturation ← amturation · matruation · matturation · matuartion · maturaiton · maturatino · maturationn · maturatoin
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "macération" for "maturation" ever safe?
Which is more common, "macération" or "maturation"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "macération" and "maturation" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "macération" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "maturation" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #60,303 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "macération" and "maturation" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "macération vs majoration". 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 #60,303 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.