Which to use
“mentionnées” and “mentionner” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,511
- “mentionnées” frequency rank
- #6,977
- “mentionner” frequency rank
- 21488
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mentionnées | mentionner |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de mentionner. | Citer, nommer ou indiquer, de vive voix ou par écrit. |
Same sound, different letters: mentionnées vs mentionner
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. mentionnées runs 11 letters (CVCCVVCCVVC) against mentionner's 10 (CVCCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - mentionnées / mentionner
This is the hard kind. mentionnées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21488, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mentionnées is recorded at frequency rank #14,511, 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 21488, this pair ranks #362,924 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of mentionnées vs mentionner
Shared letters: eimnot. Private to "mentionnées": sé. Private to "mentionner": r.
"mentionnées" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVVCCVVC · "mentionner" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- mentionner ← emntionner · menitonner · menntionner · mentinoner · mentionenr · mentioner · mentionnerr · mentionnre
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "mentionnées" and "mentionner" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "mentionnées" or "mentionner"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "mentionnées" / "mentionner". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "mentionnées" 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 #362,924 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mentionnées" and "mentionner" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mentionnées 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 #362,924 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.