mélangéesvsmélangezTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#32,495
“mélangées” frequency rank
#31,619
“mélangez” frequency rank
64114
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Same sound, different letters: mélangées vs mélangez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. mélangées runs 9 letters (CVCVCCVVC) against mélangez's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
mélangées
8 ch
mélangez

Ear matches; page differs - mélangées and mélangez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: mélangées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64114, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mélangées is recorded at frequency rank #32,495, 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 64114, this pair ranks #78,622 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mélangées vs mélangez

Shared letters: aeglmné. Private to "mélangées": s. Private to "mélangez": z.

"mélangées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC  ·  "mélangez" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mélangées" and "mélangez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mélangées" is an adjective and "mélangez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "mélangées" or "mélangez" show up more?
"mélangez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,619 in our French list, against #32,495 for "mélangées". 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 "mélangées" / "mélangez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mélangées" 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 #78,622 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mélangées" and "mélangez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mélangée vs mélangées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #78,622 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