mouvementéevsmouvementsWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: mouvementée is a adjective, mouvements is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#24,291
“mouvementée” frequency rank
#2,090
“mouvements” frequency rank
26381
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mouvementée mouvements
Definition Féminin singulier de mouvementé. Pluriel de mouvement.

Where the eye mixes mouvementée and mouvements

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. mouvementée runs 11 letters (CVVCVCVCCVV) against mouvements's 10 (CVVCVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
mouvementée
10 ch
mouvements

Look-alike desk: mouvementée vs mouvements

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mouvementée is \muv.mɑ̃.te\ while mouvements is \muv.mɑ̃\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26381, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mouvementée is recorded at frequency rank #24,291, classified as anadj, pronounced \muv.mɑ̃.te\. mouvements is at rank #2,090, tagged as anoun, pronounced \muv.mɑ̃\.

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 26381, this pair ranks #335,358 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of mouvementée vs mouvements

Shared letters: emnotuv. Private to "mouvementée": é. Private to "mouvements": s.

"mouvementée" · 11 letters · shape CVVCVCVCCVV  ·  "mouvements" · 10 letters · shape CVVCVCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mouvements ← mmouvements · mouevments · mouveemnts · mouvemennts · mouvemenst · mouvementss · mouvementts · mouvemetns

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mouvementée" for "mouvements" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mouvementée" is an adjective and "mouvements" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "mouvementée" or "mouvements" show up more?
"mouvements" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,090 in our French list, against #24,291 for "mouvementée". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "mouvementée" and "mouvements" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mouvementée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mouvements" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #335,358 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mouvementée" and "mouvements" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mouvementé vs mouvementée". 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 #335,358 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