administréevsadministrerConfusable pair

Quick tell: administrée is a noun, administrer is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#23,745
“administrée” frequency rank
#16,535
“administrer” frequency rank
40280
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature administrée administrer
Definition Administré, en parlant d’une femme. Gouverner, régir les affaires publiques ou particulières.

Same sound, different letters: administrée vs administrer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. administrée (VCCVCVCCCVV) and administrer (VCCVCVCCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

11 ch
administrée
11 ch
administrer

Homophone desk: administrée vs administrer

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: administrée and administrer carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ad.mi.nis.tʁe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40280, 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\. administrer is at rank #16,535, tagged as averb, 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 40280, this pair ranks #241,675 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of administrée vs administrer

Shared letters: adeimnrst. Private to "administrée": é. Private to "administrer": -.

"administrée" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCVCCCVV  ·  "administrer" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCVCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • administrer ← addministrer · adimnistrer · admiinstrer · adminisrter · adminisstrer · administerr · administrerr · administrre

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "administrée" for "administrer" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "administrée" is a noun and "administrer" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "administrée" or "administrer"?
"administrer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,535 in our French list, against #23,745 for "administrée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "administrée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "administrer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #241,675 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "administrée" and "administrer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "administrée vs administrées". 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 #241,675 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