Which to use
“admiré” and “admirez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #23,438
- “admiré” frequency rank
- #24,843
- “admirez” frequency rank
- 48281
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | admiré | admirez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe admirer. | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe admirer. |
Same sound, different letters: admiré vs admirez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. admiré runs 6 letters (VCCVCV) against admirez's 7 (VCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - admiré / admirez
This is the hard kind. admiré and admirez are pronounced identically (\ad.mi.ʁe\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48281, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
admiré is recorded at frequency rank #23,438, classified as averb, pronounced \ad.mi.ʁe\. admirez is at rank #24,843, 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 48281, this pair ranks #180,159 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of admiré vs admirez
Shared letters: adimr. Private to "admiré": é. Private to "admirez": ez.
"admiré" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "admirez" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- admirez ← addmirez · adimrez · admierz · admirezz · admirrez · admirze · admmirez · admriez
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "admiré" and "admirez" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "admiré" or "admirez" show up more?
After this comparison
"admiré" and "admirez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "admiré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "admirez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #180,159 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "admiré" and "admirez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "admirée vs admirez". 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 #180,159 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.