AddievsAndréTell them apart

Which to use

“Addie” and “André” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#39,668
“Addie” frequency rank
#20,833
“André” frequency rank
60501
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Addie André
Definition A diminutive of the female given names Adele, Adeline, Adelaide, or Addison or other names beginning with Ad-. A male given name from French or Portuguese, borrowed from the French and Portuguese form of Andrew.

Letter map: Addie vs André

Shared letters muted; letters that set Addie and André apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

5 ch
Addie
5 ch
André

Corpus notes: Addie and André

Addie and André are indexed as a confusable English pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60501, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Addie is recorded at frequency rank #39,668, classified as aname. André is at rank #20,833, tagged as aname, pronounced /ˈɑːndɹeɪ/.

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 60501, this pair ranks #99,869 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Addie vs André

Shared letters: ad. Private to "Addie": ei. Private to "André": nré.

"Addie" · 5 letters · shape VCCVV  ·  "André" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Addieaddei · adide · dadie

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Addie" for "André" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "Addie" vs "André" - which ranks higher?
"André" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,833 in our English list, against #39,668 for "Addie". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "Addie" and "André". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Addie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "André" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #99,869 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Addie" and "André" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Addie vs addled". 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 #99,869 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list