vengévsverbeTell them apart

Quick tell: vengé is a verb, verbe is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“vengé” is a verb and “verbe” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#37,121
“vengé” frequency rank
#6,146
“verbe” frequency rank
43267
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vengé verbe
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de venger. Partie du discours qui exprime soit une action faite ou supportée par le sujet, soit un état ou une manière d’être du sujet, et qui, pour les exprimer, possède un certain nombre de formes diverses dont l’ensemble est appelé conjugaison, lesquelles formes expriment son sujet et le temps de la proposition.

Where the eye mixes vengé and verbe

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. vengé and verbe follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
vengé
5 ch
verbe

Why the eye confuses vengé with verbe

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: vengé is \vɑ̃.ʒe\ while verbe is \vɛʁb\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43267, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vengé is recorded at frequency rank #37,121, classified as averb, pronounced \vɑ̃.ʒe\. verbe is at rank #6,146, tagged as anoun, pronounced \vɛʁb\.

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 43267, this pair ranks #219,406 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vengé vs verbe

Shared letters: ev. Private to "vengé": gné. Private to "verbe": br.

"vengé" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "verbe" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • verbe ← evrbe · vebre · verbbe · vereb · verrbe · vrebe · vverbe

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "vengé" for "verbe" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vengé" is a verb and "verbe" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "vengé" or "verbe"?
"verbe" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,146 in our French list, against #37,121 for "vengé". 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 "vengé" and "verbe" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vengé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "verbe" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #219,406 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vengé" and "verbe" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vengé vs veniez". 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 #219,406 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