Which to use
“adopté” and “adoptés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,121
- “adopté” frequency rank
- #16,536
- “adoptés” frequency rank
- 19657
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adopté | adoptés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est légalement adopté. | Masculin pluriel de adopté. |
Same sound, different letters: adopté vs adoptés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. adopté runs 6 letters (VCVCCV) against adoptés's 7 (VCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - adopté / adoptés
This is the hard kind. adopté and adoptés 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 1 extra letter(s) - “adopté” sits inside “adoptés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19657, 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\. adoptés is at rank #16,536, 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 19657, this pair ranks #372,191 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of adopté vs adoptés
Shared letters: adopté. Private to "adopté": -. Private to "adoptés": s.
"adopté" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV · "adoptés" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "adopté" for "adoptés" ever safe?
Which is more common, "adopté" or "adoptés"?
After this comparison
"adopté" and "adoptés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "adopté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adoptés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #372,191 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adopté" and "adoptés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adoptera vs adoptés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #372,191 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.