Which to use
“acre” and “actée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,433
- “acre” frequency rank
- #47,712
- “actée” frequency rank
- 76145
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | acre | actée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Unité de surface égale à 0,4 hectare ou à 4046,9 mètres carrés, encore utilisée en agriculture et dans divers pays avec des valeurs différentes. | Plante de la famille des renonculacées, qui peut atteindre jusqu’à 2.5 m de hauteur, et est originaire des sous-bois ombragés du sud-est du Canada et du nord-est des États-Unis. |
Where the eye mixes acre and actée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. acre runs 4 letters (VCCV) against actée's 5 (VCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between acre and actée
A purely visual mix-up. acre (\akʁ\) and actée (\ak.te\) 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76145, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
acre is recorded at frequency rank #28,433, classified as anoun, pronounced \akʁ\. actée is at rank #47,712, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ak.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 76145, this pair ranks #31,969 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of acre vs actée
Shared letters: ace. Private to "acre": r. Private to "actée": té.
"acre" · 4 letters · shape VCCV · "actée" · 5 letters · shape VCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- acre ← accre · acrre
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "acre" for "actée" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "acre" or "actée" show up more?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "acre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "actée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #31,969 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "acre" and "actée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aces 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 #31,969 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.