Which to use
“admirez” and “adorez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,843
- “admirez” frequency rank
- #40,584
- “adorez” frequency rank
- 65427
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | admirez | adorez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe admirer. | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe adorer. |
Where the eye mixes admirez and adorez
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.
Visual trap between admirez and adorez
A purely visual mix-up. admirez (\ad.mi.ʁe\) and adorez (\a.dɔ.ʁe\) 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 65427, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
admirez is recorded at frequency rank #24,843, classified as averb, pronounced \ad.mi.ʁe\. adorez is at rank #40,584, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.dɔ.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 65427, this pair ranks #72,380 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of admirez vs adorez
Shared letters: aderz. Private to "admirez": im. Private to "adorez": o.
"admirez" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC · "adorez" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "admirez" and "adorez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "admirez" vs "adorez" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "admirez" and "adorez" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "admirez" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adorez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #72,380 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "admirez" and "adorez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adoptez vs adorez". 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 #72,380 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.