adhérentevsadhérentesWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#39,133
“adhérente” frequency rank
#36,231
“adhérentes” frequency rank
75364
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adhérente adhérentes
Definition Celle qui est du sentiment, du parti de quelqu’un, qui se range dans un groupement politique, social, littéraire, etc. Féminin pluriel de adhérent.

Same sound, different letters: adhérente vs adhérentes

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. adhérente runs 9 letters (VCCVCVCCV) against adhérentes's 10 (VCCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
adhérente
10 ch
adhérentes

Homophone desk: adhérente vs adhérentes

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: adhérente and adhérentes carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.de.ʁɑ̃t\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “adhérente” sits inside “adhérentes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 75364, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

adhérente is recorded at frequency rank #39,133, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.de.ʁɑ̃t\. adhérentes is at rank #36,231, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.de.ʁɑ̃t\.

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 75364, this pair ranks #34,316 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of adhérente vs adhérentes

Shared letters: adehnrté. Private to "adhérente": -. Private to "adhérentes": s.

"adhérente" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCCV  ·  "adhérentes" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "adhérente" and "adhérentes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "adhérente" is a noun and "adhérentes" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "adhérente" vs "adhérentes" - which ranks higher?
"adhérentes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,231 in our French list, against #39,133 for "adhérente". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"adhérente" and "adhérentes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "adhérente" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "adhérentes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #34,316 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adhérente" and "adhérentes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adhérentes vs afférentes". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #34,316 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