mangéevsmangezTell them apart

Which to use

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

#36,040
“mangée” frequency rank
#13,424
“mangez” frequency rank
49464
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mangée mangez
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de manger. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de manger.

Same sound, different letters: mangée vs mangez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. mangée (CVCCVV) and mangez (CVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
mangée
6 ch
mangez

Same sound, different spelling - mangée / mangez

This is the hard kind. mangée and mangez are pronounced identically (\mɑ̃.ʒe\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49464, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mangée is recorded at frequency rank #36,040, classified as averb, pronounced \mɑ̃.ʒe\. mangez is at rank #13,424, tagged as averb, pronounced \mɑ̃.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 49464, this pair ranks #170,442 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mangée vs mangez

Shared letters: aegmn. Private to "mangée": é. Private to "mangez": z.

"mangée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV  ·  "mangez" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mangez ← amngez · magnez · manegz · mangezz · manggez · mangze · manngez · mmangez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mangée" and "mangez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\mɑ̃.ʒe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "mangée" vs "mangez" - which ranks higher?
"mangez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,424 in our French list, against #36,040 for "mangée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "mangée" / "mangez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mangée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mangez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #170,442 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mangée" and "mangez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mane vs mangée". 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 #170,442 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