addisvsadmiseWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: addis is a noun, admise is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“addis” is a noun and “admise” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#28,040
“addis” frequency rank
#16,050
“admise” frequency rank
44090
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature addis admise
Definition Locatif singulier de addi. Féminin singulier de admis.

Where the eye mixes addis and admise

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. addis runs 5 letters (VCCVC) against admise's 6 (VCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
addis
6 ch
admise

Visual trap between addis and admise

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: addis is /ˈɑdːis/ while admise is \ad.miz\. 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 (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44090, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

addis is recorded at frequency rank #28,040, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈɑdːis/. admise is at rank #16,050, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ad.miz\.

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 44090, this pair ranks #213,126 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of addis vs admise

Shared letters: adis. Private to "addis": -. Private to "admise": em.

"addis" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC  ·  "admise" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • addis ← addiss · addsi · adids · adis · dadis
  • admise ← addmise · adimse · admies · admisse · admmise · admsie · amdise · damise

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "addis" for "admise" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "addis" is a noun and "admise" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "addis" or "admise" show up more?
"admise" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,050 in our French list, against #28,040 for "addis". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "addis" and "admise" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "addis" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "admise" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #213,126 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "addis" and "admise" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "addis vs Artis". 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 #213,126 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list