abrogévsabrogéeWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: abrogé is a adjective, abrogée is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#32,255
“abrogé” frequency rank
#45,405
“abrogée” frequency rank
77660
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature abrogé abrogée
Definition Supprimé, annulé, en parlant des lois, décrets, arrêtés, etc. Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe abroger.

Same sound, different letters: abrogé vs abrogée

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. abrogé runs 6 letters (VCCVCV) against abrogée's 7 (VCCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
abrogé
7 ch
abrogée

Ear matches; page differs - abrogé and abrogée

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: abrogé and abrogée carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.bʁɔ.ʒe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “abrogé” sits inside “abrogée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77660, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

abrogé is recorded at frequency rank #32,255, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.bʁɔ.ʒe\. abrogée is at rank #45,405, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.bʁɔ.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 77660, this pair ranks #27,769 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of abrogé vs abrogée

Shared letters: abgoré. Private to "abrogé": -. Private to "abrogée": e.

"abrogé" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV  ·  "abrogée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "abrogé" for "abrogée" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "abrogé" is an adjective and "abrogée" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "abrogé" or "abrogée" show up more?
"abrogé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,255 in our French list, against #45,405 for "abrogée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "abrogé" / "abrogée". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "abrogé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "abrogée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #27,769 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "abrogé" and "abrogée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "abrogée vs agrégée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #27,769 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