Which to use
“adossé” and “adossée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #33,100
- “adossé” frequency rank
- #38,628
- “adossée” frequency rank
- 71728
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adossé | adossée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Se dit d’une main (gant, gantelet…) dont on voit le dos, par opposition à appaumé. | Féminin singulier de adossé. |
Same sound, different letters: adossé vs adossée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. adossé runs 6 letters (VCVCCV) against adossée's 7 (VCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - adossé and adossée
This is the hard kind. adossé and adossée are pronounced identically (\a.do.se\) 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) - “adossé” sits inside “adossée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71728, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adossé is recorded at frequency rank #33,100, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.do.se\. adossée is at rank #38,628, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.do.se\.
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 71728, this pair ranks #46,504 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of adossé vs adossée
Shared letters: adosé. Private to "adossé": -. Private to "adossée": e.
"adossé" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV · "adossée" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "adossé" for "adossée" ever safe?
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Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "adossé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adossée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #46,504 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adossé" and "adossée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adossé vs amasse". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #46,504 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.