recommandevsrecommandéesWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: recommande is a verb, recommandées is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#4,524
“recommande” frequency rank
#32,978
“recommandées” frequency rank
37502
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature recommande recommandées
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de recommander. Féminin pluriel de recommandé.

Where the eye mixes recommande and recommandées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. recommande runs 10 letters (CVCVCCVCCV) against recommandées's 12 (CVCVCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
recommande
12 ch
recommandées

Look-alike desk: recommande vs recommandées

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: recommande is \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃d\ while recommandées is \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.de\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37502, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

recommande is recorded at frequency rank #4,524, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃d\. recommandées is at rank #32,978, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.kɔ.mɑ̃.de\.

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 37502, this pair ranks #262,073 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of recommande vs recommandées

Shared letters: acdemnor. Private to "recommande": -. Private to "recommandées": .

"recommande" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCV  ·  "recommandées" · 12 letters · shape CVCVCCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • recommandeercommande · rceommande · reccommande · recmomande · recomamnde · recomande · recommadne · recommandde

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "recommande" and "recommandées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "recommande" is a verb and "recommandées" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "recommande" vs "recommandées" - which ranks higher?
"recommande" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,524 in our French list, against #32,978 for "recommandées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "recommande" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "recommandées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #262,073 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "recommande" and "recommandées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recommandées vs recommandons". 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 #262,073 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