Which to use
“admet” is a verb and “admis” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,023
- “admet” frequency rank
- #4,119
- “admis” frequency rank
- 11142
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | admet | admis |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de admettre. | 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 admet and admis
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. admet and admis follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between admet and admis
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: admet is \ad.mɛ\ while admis is \ad.mi\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11142, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
admet is recorded at frequency rank #7,023, classified as averb, pronounced \ad.mɛ\. 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 11142, this pair ranks #410,299 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of admet vs admis
Shared letters: adm. Private to "admet": et. Private to "admis": is.
"admet" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC · "admis" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "admet" and "admis" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "admet" or "admis"?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "admet" and "admis" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "admet" 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 #410,299 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "admet" and "admis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "admis 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 #410,299 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.