Which to use
“mentionnée” and “mentionner” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,812
- “mentionnée” frequency rank
- #6,977
- “mentionner” frequency rank
- 19789
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mentionnée | mentionner |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de mentionner. | Citer, nommer ou indiquer, de vive voix ou par écrit. |
Same sound, different letters: mentionnée vs mentionner
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. mentionnée (CVCCVVCCVV) and mentionner (CVCCVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - mentionnée and mentionner
This is the hard kind. mentionnée and mentionner are pronounced identically (\mɑ̃.sjɔ.ne\) 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 19789, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mentionnée is recorded at frequency rank #12,812, classified as averb, pronounced \mɑ̃.sjɔ.ne\. mentionner is at rank #6,977, tagged as averb, pronounced \mɑ̃.sjɔ.ne\.
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 19789, this pair ranks #371,550 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of mentionnée vs mentionner
Shared letters: eimnot. Private to "mentionnée": é. Private to "mentionner": r.
"mentionnée" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVVCCVV · "mentionner" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- mentionner ← emntionner · menitonner · menntionner · mentinoner · mentionenr · mentioner · mentionnerr · mentionnre
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "mentionnée" and "mentionner" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "mentionnée" or "mentionner"?
Useful next steps
"mentionnée" and "mentionner" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "mentionnée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mentionner" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #371,550 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mentionnée" and "mentionner" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mentionnée vs mentionnez". 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 #371,550 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.