rangévsrangezWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#14,344
“rangé” frequency rank
#30,326
“rangez” frequency rank
44670
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rangé rangez
Definition Mis en rang. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de ranger.

Same sound, different letters: rangé vs rangez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters.

5 ch
rangé
6 ch
rangez

Ear matches; page differs - rangé and rangez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: rangé and rangez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ʁɑ̃.ʒe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44670, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rangé is recorded at frequency rank #14,344, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.ʒe\. rangez is at rank #30,326, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.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 44670, this pair ranks #208,708 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rangé vs rangez

Shared letters: agnr. Private to "rangé": é. Private to "rangez": ez.

"rangé" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "rangez" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rangezarngez · ragnez · ranegz · rangezz · ranggez · rangze · ranngez · rnagez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rangé" for "rangez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rangé" is an adjective and "rangez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "rangé" or "rangez" show up more?
"rangé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,344 in our French list, against #30,326 for "rangez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rangé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rangez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #208,708 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rangé" and "rangez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rangent vs rangez". 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 #208,708 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