Which to use
“adopté” and “adoptées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,121
- “adopté” frequency rank
- #15,296
- “adoptées” frequency rank
- 18417
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adopté | adoptées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est légalement adopté. | Féminin pluriel de adopté. |
Same sound, different letters: adopté vs adoptées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Homophone desk: adopté vs adoptées
This is the hard kind. adopté and adoptées are pronounced identically (\a.dɔp.te\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “adopté” sits inside “adoptées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18417, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adopté is recorded at frequency rank #3,121, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.dɔp.te\. adoptées is at rank #15,296, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.dɔp.te\.
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 18417, this pair ranks #378,426 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of adopté vs adoptées
Shared letters: adopté. Private to "adopté": -. Private to "adoptées": es.
"adopté" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV · "adoptées" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "adopté" for "adoptées" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "adopté" or "adoptées" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "adopté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adoptées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #378,426 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adopté" and "adoptées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adoptées vs adoptera". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #378,426 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.