Which to use
“adoptées” and “adoptés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,296
- “adoptées” frequency rank
- #16,536
- “adoptés” frequency rank
- 31832
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adoptées | adoptés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de adopté. | Masculin pluriel de adopté. |
Same sound, different letters: adoptées vs adoptés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. adoptées runs 8 letters (VCVCCVVC) 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 - adoptées / adoptés
This is the hard kind. adoptées 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31832, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adoptées is recorded at frequency rank #15,296, 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 31832, this pair ranks #301,269 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of adoptées vs adoptés
Shared letters: adopsté. Private to "adoptées": e. Private to "adoptés": -.
"adoptées" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVVC · "adoptés" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "adoptées" and "adoptés" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "adoptées" or "adoptés"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "adoptées" / "adoptés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "adoptées" 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 #301,269 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adoptées" and "adoptés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adoptera vs adoptés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #301,269 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.