administréevsadministréesConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#23,745
“administrée” frequency rank
#44,286
“administrées” frequency rank
68031
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature administrée administrées
Definition Administré, en parlant d’une femme. Féminin pluriel de administré.

Same sound, different letters: administrée vs administrées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. administrée runs 11 letters (VCCVCVCCCVV) against administrées's 12 (VCCVCVCCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
administrée
12 ch
administrées

Same sound, different spelling - administrée / administrées

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: administrée and administrées carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ad.mi.nis.tʁe\. 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) - “administrée” sits inside “administrées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68031, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

administrée is recorded at frequency rank #23,745, classified as anoun, 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 68031, this pair ranks #60,904 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of administrée vs administrées

Shared letters: adeimnrsté. Private to "administrée": -. Private to "administrées": -.

"administrée" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCVCCCVV  ·  "administrées" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCVCCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "administrée" for "administrées" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "administrée" is a noun and "administrées" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "administrée" vs "administrées" - which ranks higher?
"administrée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,745 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 "administrée" / "administrées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "administrée" 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 #60,904 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "administrée" and "administrées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "administrées vs administrer". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #60,904 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