Which to use
“admirée” and “admirer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #49,463
- “admirée” frequency rank
- #7,927
- “admirer” frequency rank
- 57390
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | admirée | admirer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe admirer. | Considérer avec un étonnement mêlé de plaisir ce qui paraît beau, ce qui paraît merveilleux. |
Same sound, different letters: admirée vs admirer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. admirée (VCCVCVV) and admirer (VCCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - admirée and admirer
This is the hard kind. admirée and admirer 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57390, 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\. admirer is at rank #7,927, 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 57390, this pair ranks #115,327 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of admirée vs admirer
Shared letters: adeimr. Private to "admirée": é. Private to "admirer": -.
"admirée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV · "admirer" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- admirer ← addmirer · adimrer · admierr · admirerr · admirre · admirrer · admmirer · admrier
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "admirée" and "admirer" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "admirée" or "admirer"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "admirée" / "admirer". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "admirée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "admirer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #115,327 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "admirée" and "admirer" 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 #115,327 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.