admirezvsaimiezConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#24,843
“admirez” frequency rank
#39,630
“aimiez” frequency rank
64473
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature admirez aimiez
Definition Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe admirer. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe aimer.

Where the eye mixes admirez and aimiez

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. admirez runs 7 letters (VCCVCVC) against aimiez's 6 (VVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
admirez
6 ch
aimiez

Visual trap between admirez and aimiez

A purely visual mix-up. admirez (\ad.mi.ʁe\) and aimiez (\ɛ.mje\) 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 64473, 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\. aimiez is at rank #39,630, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛ.mje\.

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 64473, this pair ranks #76,921 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of admirez vs aimiez

Shared letters: aeimz. Private to "admirez": dr. Private to "aimiez": -.

"admirez" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC  ·  "aimiez" · 6 letters · shape VVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • admirez ← addmirez · adimrez · admierz · admirezz · admirrez · admirze · admmirez · admriez
  • aimiez ← aiimez · aimeiz · aimiezz · aimize · aimmiez · amiiez · iamiez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "admirez" for "aimiez" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ad.mi.ʁe\ versus \ɛ.mje\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "admirez" vs "aimiez" - which ranks higher?
"admirez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,843 in our French list, against #39,630 for "aimiez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "admirez" and "aimiez" 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 "aimiez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #76,921 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "admirez" and "aimiez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aimiez vs Amiel". 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 #76,921 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