ramenésvsramenezConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#24,735
“ramenés” frequency rank
#22,059
“ramenez” frequency rank
46794
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ramenés ramenez
Definition Participe passé masculin pluriel de ramener. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ramener.

Same sound, different letters: ramenés vs ramenez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. ramenés and ramenez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
ramenés
7 ch
ramenez

Ear matches; page differs - ramenés and ramenez

This is the hard kind. ramenés and ramenez are pronounced identically (\ʁa.mə.ne\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46794, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ramenés is recorded at frequency rank #24,735, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁa.mə.ne\. ramenez is at rank #22,059, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁa.mə.ne\.

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 46794, this pair ranks #192,020 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of ramenés vs ramenez

Shared letters: aemnr. Private to "ramenés": sé. Private to "ramenez": z.

"ramenés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "ramenez" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ramenez ← armenez · raemnez · rameenz · ramenezz · ramennez · ramenze · rammenez · ramneez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "ramenés" and "ramenez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁa.mə.ne\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "ramenés" or "ramenez" show up more?
"ramenez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,059 in our French list, against #24,735 for "ramenés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "ramenés" / "ramenez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ramenés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ramenez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #192,020 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ramenés" and "ramenez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ramenés vs rasées". 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 #192,020 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