médiatiquesvsmédiatisésWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: médiatiques is a adjective, médiatisés is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#15,944
“médiatiques” frequency rank
#41,912
“médiatisés” frequency rank
57856
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature médiatiques médiatisés
Definition Pluriel de médiatique. Participe passé masculin pluriel de médiatiser.

Where the eye mixes médiatiques and médiatisés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. médiatiques runs 11 letters (CVCVVCVCVVC) against médiatisés's 10 (CVCVVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
médiatiques
10 ch
médiatisés

Look-alike desk: médiatiques vs médiatisés

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: médiatiques is \me.dja.tik\ while médiatisés is \me.dja.ti.ze\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57856, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

médiatiques is recorded at frequency rank #15,944, classified as anadj, pronounced \me.dja.tik\. médiatisés is at rank #41,912, tagged as averb, pronounced \me.dja.ti.ze\.

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 57856, this pair ranks #112,540 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of médiatiques vs médiatisés

Shared letters: adimsté. Private to "médiatiques": equ. Private to "médiatisés": -.

"médiatiques" · 11 letters · shape CVCVVCVCVVC  ·  "médiatisés" · 10 letters · shape CVCVVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "médiatiques" for "médiatisés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "médiatiques" is an adjective and "médiatisés" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "médiatiques" or "médiatisés" show up more?
"médiatiques" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,944 in our French list, against #41,912 for "médiatisés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "médiatiques" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "médiatisés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #112,540 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "médiatiques" and "médiatisés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "médiatisée vs médiatisés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #112,540 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