Which to use
“achetées” and “acheter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,635
- “achetées” frequency rank
- #782
- “acheter” frequency rank
- 19417
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | achetées | acheter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe acheter. | Acquérir quelque chose en l’échangeant contre sa valeur en devise. |
Same sound, different letters: achetées vs acheter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. achetées runs 8 letters (VCCVCVVC) against acheter's 7 (VCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: achetées vs acheter
This is the hard kind. achetées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19417, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
achetées is recorded at frequency rank #18,635, 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 19417, this pair ranks #373,367 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of achetées vs acheter
Shared letters: aceht. Private to "achetées": sé. Private to "acheter": r.
"achetées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC · "acheter" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- acheter ← accheter · acehter · acheetr · acheterr · achetre · achetter · achheter · achteer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "achetées" and "acheter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "achetées" or "acheter" show up more?
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 "achetées" 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 #373,367 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "achetées" and "acheter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "achetées vs achetons". 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 #373,367 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.