Which to use
“achetée” and “acheter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,163
- “achetée” frequency rank
- #782
- “acheter” frequency rank
- 11945
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | achetée | acheter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe acheter. | Acquérir quelque chose en l’échangeant contre sa valeur en devise. |
Same sound, different letters: achetée vs acheter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. achetée (VCCVCVV) and acheter (VCCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - achetée and acheter
This is the hard kind. achetée and acheter are pronounced identically (\a.ʃə.te\) 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 11945, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
achetée is recorded at frequency rank #11,163, classified as averb, pronounced \a.ʃə.te\. acheter is at rank #782, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.ʃə.te\.
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 11945, this pair ranks #407,164 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of achetée vs acheter
Shared letters: aceht. Private to "achetée": é. Private to "acheter": r.
"achetée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV · "acheter" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- acheter ← accheter · acehter · acheetr · acheterr · achetre · achetter · achheter · achteer
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "achetée" and "acheter" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "achetée" or "acheter"?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "achetée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "acheter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #407,164 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "achetée" and "acheter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "achetée vs actée". 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 #407,164 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.