mitigésvsmutilésWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: mitigés is a adjective, mutilés is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#40,871
“mitigés” frequency rank
#33,358
“mutilés” frequency rank
74229
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mitigés mutilés
Definition Masculin pluriel de mitigé. Participe passé masculin pluriel de mutiler.

Letter map: mitigés vs mutilés

Shared letters muted; letters that set mitigés and mutilés apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. mitigés and mutilés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
mitigés
7 ch
mutilés

Grammar separator: mitigés vs mutilés

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mitigés is anadjective and mutilésaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74229, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mitigés is recorded at frequency rank #40,871, classified as anadj. mutilés is at rank #33,358, tagged as averb, pronounced \my.ti.le\.

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 74229, this pair ranks #37,808 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mitigés vs mutilés

Shared letters: imsté. Private to "mitigés": g. Private to "mutilés": lu.

"mitigés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "mutilés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mitigés" and "mutilés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mitigés" is an adjective and "mutilés" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "mitigés" or "mutilés" show up more?
"mutilés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,358 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.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "mitigés" and "mutilés".

  • Full dictionary entry for "mitigés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mutilés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #37,808 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mitigés" and "mutilés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mitigées vs mitigés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #37,808 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