administré vs administrées

Which to use

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

#16,288
“administré” frequency rank: #44,286
“administrées” frequency rank: 60574
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	administré	administrées
Definition	Qui est administré.	Féminin pluriel de administré.

Same sound, different letters: administré vs administrées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. administré runs 10 letters (VCCVCVCCCV) against administrées's 12 (VCCVCVCCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch

administré

12 ch

administrées

Homophone desk: administré vs administrées

This is the hard kind. administré and administrées are pronounced identically (\ad.mi.nis.tʁe\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “administré” sits inside “administrées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60574, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

administré is recorded at frequency rank #16,288, classified as anadj, pronounced \ad.mi.nis.tʁe\. administrées is at rank #44,286, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ad.mi.nis.tʁe\.

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 60574, this pair ranks #96,905 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of administré vs administrées

Shared letters: adimnrsté. Private to "administré": -. Private to "administrées": e.

"administré" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCCCV · "administrées" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCVCCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "administré" for "administrées" ever safe?

No. They are pronounced the same (\ad.mi.nis.tʁe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Frequency check: "administré" vs "administrées" - which ranks higher?

"administré" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,288 in our French list, against #44,286 for "administrées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "administré" / "administrées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

Full dictionary entry for "administré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "administrées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #96,905 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"administré" and "administrées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "administrée vs administrées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #96,905 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.