Which to use
“submergée” and “submerger” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #34,766
- “submergée” frequency rank
- #45,330
- “submerger” frequency rank
- 80096
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | submergée | submerger |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de submerger. | Recouvrir d’eau ; faire disparaître sous les eaux. |
Same sound, different letters: submergée vs submerger
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. submergée (CVCCVCCVV) and submerger (CVCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - submergée and submerger
This is the hard kind. submergée and submerger are pronounced identically (\syb.mɛʁ.ʒe\) 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 80096, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
submergée is recorded at frequency rank #34,766, classified as averb, pronounced \syb.mɛʁ.ʒe\. submerger is at rank #45,330, tagged as averb, pronounced \syb.mɛʁ.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 80096, this pair ranks #21,747 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of submergée vs submerger
Shared letters: begmrsu. Private to "submergée": é. Private to "submerger": -.
"submergée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV · "submerger" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- submerger ← sbumerger · ssubmerger · subbmerger · subemrger · submegrer · submeregr · submergerr · submergger
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "submergée" and "submerger" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "submergée" vs "submerger" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "submergée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "submerger" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #21,747 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "submergée" and "submerger" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "submerger vs submergés". 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 #21,747 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.