adivsadmisTell them apart

Which to use

“adi” and “admis” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#39,134
“adi” frequency rank
#4,119
“admis” frequency rank
43253
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adi admis
Definition Relatif aux Adis, peuple de l’Inde se trouvant sur les collines de l’Himalaya. Qui, ayant subi avec succès jusqu’à la fin toutes les épreuves d’un concours, obtient le diplôme, entre à l’école ou parvient à la fonction qui se recrute ainsi.

Where the eye mixes adi and admis

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

3 ch
adi
5 ch
admis

Look-alike desk: adi vs admis

A purely visual mix-up. adi (\a.di\) and admis (\ad.mi\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43253, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

adi is recorded at frequency rank #39,134, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.di\. admis is at rank #4,119, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ad.mi\.

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 43253, this pair ranks #219,508 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of adi vs admis

Shared letters: adi. Private to "adi": -. Private to "admis": ms.

"adi" · 3 letters · shape VCV  ·  "admis" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • admis ← addmis · adims · admiss · admmis · admsi · amdis · damis

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "adi" and "admis" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\a.di\ versus \ad.mi\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "adi" vs "admis" - which ranks higher?
"admis" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,119 in our French list, against #39,134 for "adi". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "adi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "admis" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #219,508 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adi" and "admis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adi vs aur". 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 #219,508 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