miragesvsmitigésWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: mirages is a noun, mitigés is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mirages” is a noun and “mitigés” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#43,014
“mirages” frequency rank
#40,871
“mitigés” frequency rank
83885
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mirages mitigés
Definition Pluriel de mirage. Masculin pluriel de mitigé.

Letter map: mirages vs mitigés

Shared letters muted; letters that set mirages and mitigés apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. mirages and mitigés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
mirages
7 ch
mitigés

Role in the sentence - mirages and mitigés

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mirages is anoun and mitigésanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 83885, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mirages is recorded at frequency rank #43,014, classified as anoun, pronounced \mi.ʁaʒ\. mitigés is at rank #40,871, tagged as anadj.

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 83885, this pair ranks #13,997 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mirages vs mitigés

Shared letters: gims. Private to "mirages": aer. Private to "mitigés": té.

"mirages" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "mitigés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mirages ← imrages · miarges · miraegs · miragess · miragges · miragse · mirgaes · mirrages

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mirages" and "mitigés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mirages" is a noun and "mitigés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "mirages" or "mitigés" show up more?
"mitigés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40,871 in our French list, against #43,014 for "mirages". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "mirages" vs "mitigés" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mirages" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mitigés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #13,997 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mirages" and "mitigés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mitigées vs mitigés". 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 #13,997 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