AdelvsadmetWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Adel is a name, admet is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Adel” is a name and “admet” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,452
“Adel” frequency rank
#7,023
“admet” frequency rank
37475
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Adel admet
Definition Prénom masculin germanique. Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de admettre.

Where the eye mixes Adel and admet

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. Adel runs 4 letters (VCVC) against admet's 5 (VCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Adel
5 ch
admet

Why the eye confuses Adel with admet

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Adel is \a.dɛl\ while admet is \ad.mɛ\. 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 (name vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37475, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Adel is recorded at frequency rank #30,452, classified as aname, pronounced \a.dɛl\. admet is at rank #7,023, tagged as averb, pronounced \ad.mɛ\.

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 37475, this pair ranks #262,252 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Adel vs admet

Shared letters: ade. Private to "Adel": l. Private to "admet": mt.

"Adel" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "admet" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Adel ← addel · adell · aedl
  • admet ← addmet · ademt · admett · admmet · admte · amdet · damet

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Adel" for "admet" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Adel" is a name and "admet" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Adel" or "admet"?
"admet" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,023 in our French list, against #30,452 for "Adel". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Adel" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "admet" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #262,252 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Adel" and "admet" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Adel vs aves". 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 #262,252 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