administréesvsadministrerWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#44,286
“administrées” frequency rank
#16,535
“administrer” frequency rank
60821
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature administrées administrer
Definition Féminin pluriel de administré. Gouverner, régir les affaires publiques ou particulières.

Same sound, different letters: administrées vs administrer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. administrées runs 12 letters (VCCVCVCCCVVC) against administrer's 11 (VCCVCVCCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch
administrées
11 ch
administrer

Same sound, different spelling - administrées / administrer

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: administrées and administrer carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ad.mi.nis.tʁe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60821, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

administrées is recorded at frequency rank #44,286, classified as anadj, 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 60821, this pair ranks #95,591 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of administrées vs administrer

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

"administrées" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCVCCCVVC  ·  "administrer" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCVCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "administrées" and "administrer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "administrées" is an adjective and "administrer" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "administrées" or "administrer"?
"administrer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,535 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "administrées" 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 #95,591 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "administrées" 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 #95,591 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