Which to use
“active” and “acuité” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,861
- “active” frequency rank
- #27,680
- “acuité” frequency rank
- 30541
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | active | acuité |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Partie de l'armée qui, en temps de paix, est maintenue en état de combattre immédiatement. | Qualité de ce qui est aigu. |
Where the eye mixes active and acuité
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Why the eye confuses active with acuité
A purely visual mix-up. active (\ak.tiv\) and acuité (\a.kɥi.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30541, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
active is recorded at frequency rank #2,861, classified as anoun, pronounced \ak.tiv\. acuité is at rank #27,680, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.kɥi.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 30541, this pair ranks #309,608 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of active vs acuité
Shared letters: acit. Private to "active": ev. Private to "acuité": ué.
"active" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "acuité" · 6 letters · shape VCVVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- active ← acctive · acitve · actiev · activve · acttive · actvie · atcive · cative
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "active" and "acuité" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "active" or "acuité"?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "active" and "acuité" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "active" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "acuité" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #309,608 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "active" and "acuité" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acuité vs annuité". 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 #309,608 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.