Which to use
“activée” is an adjective and “activent” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #25,187
- “activée” frequency rank
- #34,392
- “activent” frequency rank
- 59579
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | activée | activent |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de activé. | Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe activer. |
Where the eye mixes activée and activent
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: activée vs activent
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: activée is \ak.ti.ve\ while activent is \ak.tiv\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59579, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
activée is recorded at frequency rank #25,187, classified as anadj, pronounced \ak.ti.ve\. activent is at rank #34,392, tagged as averb, pronounced \ak.tiv\.
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 59579, this pair ranks #102,374 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of activée vs activent
Shared letters: aceitv. Private to "activée": é. Private to "activent": n.
"activée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV · "activent" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- activent ← acctivent · acitvent · actievnt · activennt · activentt · activetn · activnet · activvent
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "activée" and "activent" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "activée" vs "activent" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "activée" and "activent" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "activée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "activent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #102,374 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "activée" and "activent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "activant vs activent". 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 #102,374 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.