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“admirée” and “admirent” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#49,463
“admirée” frequency rank
#41,106
“admirent” frequency rank
90569
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature admirée admirent
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe admirer. Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe admettre.

Where the eye mixes admirée and admirent

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. admirée runs 7 letters (VCCVCVV) against admirent's 8 (VCCVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
admirée
8 ch
admirent

Visual trap between admirée and admirent

A purely visual mix-up. admirée (\ad.mi.ʁe\) and admirent (\ad.miʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 90569, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

admirée is recorded at frequency rank #49,463, classified as averb, pronounced \ad.mi.ʁe\. admirent is at rank #41,106, tagged as averb, pronounced \ad.miʁ\.

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 90569, this pair ranks #4,668 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of admirée vs admirent

Shared letters: adeimr. Private to "admirée": é. Private to "admirent": nt.

"admirée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV  ·  "admirent" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • admirent ← addmirent · adimrent · admiernt · admirennt · admirentt · admiretn · admirnet · admirrent

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "admirée" and "admirent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ad.mi.ʁe\ versus \ad.miʁ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "admirée" vs "admirent" - which ranks higher?
"admirent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #41,106 in our French list, against #49,463 for "admirée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "admirée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "admirent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #4,668 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "admirée" and "admirent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Admiral vs admirée". 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 #4,668 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