AdressevsagressésWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Adresse is a noun, agressés is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Adresse” is a noun and “agressés” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#955
“Adresse” frequency rank
#29,625
“agressés” frequency rank
30580
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Adresse agressés
Definition Adresse (dans le sens du lieu de résidence, de l’adresse informatique), coordonnées (principalement utilisé en Suisse). Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe agresser.

Where the eye mixes Adresse and agressés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. Adresse runs 7 letters (VCCVCCV) against agressés's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
Adresse
8 ch
agressés

Look-alike desk: Adresse vs agressés

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Adresse is \a.ˈdrɛ.sə\ while agressés is \a.ɡʁɛ.se\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30580, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Adresse is recorded at frequency rank #955, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.ˈdrɛ.sə\. agressés is at rank #29,625, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.ɡʁɛ.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 30580, this pair ranks #309,345 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Adresse vs agressés

Shared letters: aers. Private to "Adresse": d. Private to "agressés": gé.

"Adresse" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV  ·  "agressés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Adresse ← addresse · adersse · adrese · adreses · adrresse · adrsese · ardesse · daresse

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Adresse" for "agressés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Adresse" is a noun and "agressés" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Adresse" or "agressés"?
"Adresse" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #955 in our French list, against #29,625 for "agressés". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Adresse" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "agressés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #309,345 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Adresse" and "agressés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agrégés vs agressés". 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 #309,345 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