mitigévsmitigésConfusable pair

Which to use

“mitigé” and “mitigés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#19,071
“mitigé” frequency rank
#40,871
“mitigés” frequency rank
59942
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mitigé mitigés
Definition Atténué, adouci. Masculin pluriel de mitigé.

Letter map: mitigé vs mitigés

Shared letters muted; letters that set mitigé and mitigés apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. mitigé runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against mitigés's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
mitigé
7 ch
mitigés

Corpus notes: mitigé and mitigés

mitigé and mitigés are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “mitigé” sits inside “mitigés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59942, 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\. 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 59942, this pair ranks #100,309 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mitigé vs mitigés

Shared letters: gimté. Private to "mitigé": -. Private to "mitigés": s.

"mitigé" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "mitigés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mitigé" and "mitigés" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “mitigé” sits inside “mitigés”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Which is more common, "mitigé" or "mitigés"?
"mitigé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,071 in our French list, against #40,871 for "mitigés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "mitigé" and "mitigés". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mitigé" 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 #100,309 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mitigé" and "mitigés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mitigées vs mitigés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #100,309 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