Which to use
“adressée” and “adressées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,588
- “adressée” frequency rank
- #19,730
- “adressées” frequency rank
- 29318
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adressée | adressées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe adresser. | Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe adresser. |
Same sound, different letters: adressée vs adressées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. adressée runs 8 letters (VCCVCCVV) against adressées's 9 (VCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - adressée and adressées
This is the hard kind. adressée and adressées are pronounced identically (\a.dʁe.se\) and both work as averb. 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) - “adressée” sits inside “adressées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29318, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adressée is recorded at frequency rank #9,588, classified as averb, pronounced \a.dʁe.se\. adressées is at rank #19,730, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.dʁe.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 29318, this pair ranks #317,420 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of adressée vs adressées
Shared letters: adersé. Private to "adressée": -. Private to "adressées": -.
"adressée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV · "adressées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "adressée" and "adressées" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "adressée" or "adressées"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "adressée" / "adressées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "adressée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adressées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #317,420 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adressée" and "adressées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adressées vs adressons". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #317,420 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.