adoréevsadorezTell them apart

Quick tell: adorée is a adjective, adorez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“adorée” is an adjective and “adorez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#26,949
“adorée” frequency rank
#40,584
“adorez” frequency rank
67533
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adorée adorez
Definition Féminin singulier de adoré. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe adorer.

Same sound, different letters: adorée vs adorez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. adorée (VCVCVV) and adorez (VCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
adorée
6 ch
adorez

Ear matches; page differs - adorée and adorez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: adorée and adorez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.dɔ.ʁe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67533, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

adorée is recorded at frequency rank #26,949, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.dɔ.ʁe\. adorez is at rank #40,584, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.dɔ.ʁe\.

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 67533, this pair ranks #63,006 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of adorée vs adorez

Shared letters: adeor. Private to "adorée": é. Private to "adorez": z.

"adorée" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVV  ·  "adorez" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adorez ← addorez · adoerz · adorezz · adorrez · adorze · adroez · aodrez · daorez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "adorée" for "adorez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "adorée" is an adjective and "adorez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "adorée" or "adorez" show up more?
"adorée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #26,949 in our French list, against #40,584 for "adorez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"adorée" and "adorez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "adorée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "adorez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #63,006 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adorée" and "adorez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adoptez vs adorez". 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 #63,006 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