Which to use
“adoptés” and “adultes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,536
- “adoptés” frequency rank
- #2,977
- “adultes” frequency rank
- 19513
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adoptés | adultes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Masculin pluriel de adopté. | Pluriel de adulte. |
Where the eye mixes adoptés and adultes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. adoptés and adultes follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses adoptés with adultes
A purely visual mix-up. adoptés (\a.dɔp.te\) and adultes (\a.dylt\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19513, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adoptés is recorded at frequency rank #16,536, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.dɔp.te\. adultes is at rank #2,977, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.dylt\.
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 19513, this pair ranks #372,903 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of adoptés vs adultes
Shared letters: adst. Private to "adoptés": opé. Private to "adultes": elu.
"adoptés" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC · "adultes" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- adultes ← addultes · adlutes · adulets · adulltes · adultess · adultse · adulttes · adutles
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "adoptés" and "adultes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "adoptés" or "adultes"?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "adoptés" and "adultes" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "adoptés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adultes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #372,903 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adoptés" and "adultes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adoptera vs adoptés". 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 #372,903 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.