Which to use
“adresser” and “agressée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,723
- “adresser” frequency rank
- #20,039
- “agressée” frequency rank
- 25762
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adresser | agressée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Envoyer directement à une personne, en un lieu. | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe agresser. |
Where the eye mixes adresser and agressée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. adresser (VCCVCCVC) and agressée (VCCVCCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Visual trap between adresser and agressée
A purely visual mix-up. adresser (\a.dʁe.se\) and agressée (\a.ɡʁɛ.se\) 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 25762, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adresser is recorded at frequency rank #5,723, classified as averb, pronounced \a.dʁe.se\. agressée is at rank #20,039, 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 25762, this pair ranks #338,991 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of adresser vs agressée
Shared letters: aers. Private to "adresser": d. Private to "agressée": gé.
"adresser" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC · "agressée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- adresser ← addresser · adersser · adreser · adresesr · adresserr · adressre · adrresser · adrseser
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "adresser" and "agressée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "adresser" or "agressée" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "adresser" and "agressée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "adresser" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "agressée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #338,991 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adresser" and "agressée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agrégée vs agressée". 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 #338,991 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.