Which to use
“abonner” and “adonner” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,790
- “abonner” frequency rank
- #26,948
- “adonner” frequency rank
- 42738
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | abonner | adonner |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Aborner, fixer par des bornes les limites d’un champ. | Tourner dans un sens favorable à la marche d’un voilier, pour le vent ; ce qui permet donc de lofer. |
Where the eye mixes abonner and adonner
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. abonner and adonner follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: abonner vs adonner
A purely visual mix-up. abonner (\a.bɔ.ne\) and adonner (\a.dɔ.ne\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - b in “abonner” becomes d in “adonner”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42738, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
abonner is recorded at frequency rank #15,790, classified as averb, pronounced \a.bɔ.ne\. adonner is at rank #26,948, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.dɔ.ne\.
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 42738, this pair ranks #223,302 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of abonner vs adonner
Shared letters: aenor. Private to "abonner": b. Private to "adonner": d.
"abonner" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC · "adonner" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "abonner" and "adonner" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "abonner" or "adonner" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "abonner" and "adonner" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "abonner" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adonner" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #223,302 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "abonner" and "adonner" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adonnent vs adonner". 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 #223,302 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.