Which to use
“adressées” and “adresser” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,730
- “adressées” frequency rank
- #5,723
- “adresser” frequency rank
- 25453
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adressées | adresser |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe adresser. | Envoyer directement à une personne, en un lieu. |
Same sound, different letters: adressées vs adresser
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. adressées runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVVC) against adresser's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - adressées and adresser
This is the hard kind. adressées and adresser 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25453, 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\. adresser is at rank #5,723, 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 25453, this pair ranks #340,782 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of adressées vs adresser
Shared letters: aders. Private to "adressées": é. Private to "adresser": -.
"adressées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC · "adresser" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- adresser ← addresser · adersser · adreser · adresesr · adresserr · adressre · adrresser · adrseser
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "adressées" and "adresser" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "adressées" or "adresser" show up more?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "adressées" / "adresser". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "adressées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adresser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #340,782 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adressées" and "adresser" 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 #340,782 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.