mélangéevsmélangezTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#28,662
“mélangée” frequency rank
#31,619
“mélangez” frequency rank
60281
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mélangée mélangez
Definition Féminin singulier de mélangé. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de mélanger.

Same sound, different letters: mélangée vs mélangez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. mélangée (CVCVCCVV) and mélangez (CVCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
mélangée
8 ch
mélangez

Ear matches; page differs - mélangée and mélangez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: mélangée and mélangez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \me.lɑ̃.ʒe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, 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 60281, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mélangée is recorded at frequency rank #28,662, classified as anadj, pronounced \me.lɑ̃.ʒe\. mélangez is at rank #31,619, tagged as averb, pronounced \me.lɑ̃.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 60281, this pair ranks #98,473 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mélangée vs mélangez

Shared letters: aeglmné. Private to "mélangée": -. Private to "mélangez": z.

"mélangée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV  ·  "mélangez" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mélangée" for "mélangez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mélangée" is an adjective and "mélangez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mélangée" vs "mélangez" - which ranks higher?
"mélangée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,662 in our French list, against #31,619 for "mélangez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "mélangée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mélangez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #98,473 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mélangée" and "mélangez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mangée vs mélangée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #98,473 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