adminsvsadmiréConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#45,413
“admins” frequency rank
#23,438
“admiré” frequency rank
68851
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature admins admiré
Definition Pluriel de admin. Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe admirer.

Where the eye mixes admins and admiré

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

6 ch
admins
6 ch
admiré

Visual trap between admins and admiré

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: admins is \ad.min\ while admiré is \ad.mi.ʁe\. 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 (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68851, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

admins is recorded at frequency rank #45,413, classified as anoun, pronounced \ad.min\. admiré is at rank #23,438, tagged as averb, pronounced \ad.mi.ʁe\.

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 68851, this pair ranks #57,429 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of admins vs admiré

Shared letters: adim. Private to "admins": ns. Private to "admiré": .

"admins" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC  ·  "admiré" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adminsaddmins · adimns · adminns · adminss · admisn · admmins · admnis · amdins

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "admins" and "admiré" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "admins" is a noun and "admiré" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "admins" vs "admiré" - which ranks higher?
"admiré" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,438 in our French list, against #45,413 for "admins". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "admins" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "admiré" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #57,429 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "admins" and "admiré" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "admins vs ains". 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 #57,429 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