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.
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?
In ordinary French text, does "adorée" or "adorez" show up more?
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.