Which to use
“adressées” and “adressent” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,730
- “adressées” frequency rank
- #16,537
- “adressent” frequency rank
- 36267
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adressées | adressent |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe adresser. | Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe adresser. |
Where the eye mixes adressées and adressent
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. adressées (VCCVCCVVC) and adressent (VCCVCCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Visual trap between adressées and adressent
A purely visual mix-up. adressées (\a.dʁe.se\) and adressent (\a.dʁɛs\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36267, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adressées is recorded at frequency rank #19,730, classified as averb, pronounced \a.dʁe.se\. adressent is at rank #16,537, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.dʁɛs\.
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 36267, this pair ranks #270,771 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of adressées vs adressent
Shared letters: aders. Private to "adressées": é. Private to "adressent": nt.
"adressées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC · "adressent" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- adressent ← addressent · aderssent · adresent · adresesnt · adressennt · adressentt · adressetn · adressnet
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "adressées" for "adressent" ever safe?
Which is more common, "adressées" or "adressent"?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "adressées" and "adressent" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "adressées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adressent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #270,771 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adressées" and "adressent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adressées vs adressons". 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 #270,771 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.