Which to use
“mitigé” and “mitigées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,071
- “mitigé” frequency rank
- #47,464
- “mitigées” frequency rank
- 66535
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mitigé | mitigées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Atténué, adouci. | Féminin pluriel de mitigé. |
Same sound, different letters: mitigé vs mitigées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. mitigé runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against mitigées's 8 (CVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - mitigé and mitigées
This is the hard kind. mitigé and mitigées are pronounced identically (\mi.ti.ʒe\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “mitigé” sits inside “mitigées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66535, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mitigé is recorded at frequency rank #19,071, classified as anadj, pronounced \mi.ti.ʒe\. mitigées is at rank #47,464, tagged as anadj, pronounced \mi.ti.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 66535, this pair ranks #67,391 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of mitigé vs mitigées
Shared letters: gimté. Private to "mitigé": -. Private to "mitigées": es.
"mitigé" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "mitigées" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "mitigé" and "mitigées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "mitigé" vs "mitigées" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "mitigé" / "mitigées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "mitigé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mitigées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #67,391 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mitigé" and "mitigées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mitigées vs mitigés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #67,391 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.