Which to use
“adresser” and “agressés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,723
- “adresser” frequency rank
- #29,625
- “agressés” frequency rank
- 35348
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adresser | agressés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Envoyer directement à une personne, en un lieu. | Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe agresser. |
Where the eye mixes adresser and agressés
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. adresser and agressés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: adresser vs agressés
A purely visual mix-up. adresser (\a.dʁe.se\) and agressés (\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 35348, 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\. 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 35348, this pair ranks #277,341 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of adresser vs agressés
Shared letters: aers. Private to "adresser": d. Private to "agressés": gé.
"adresser" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC · "agressés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- adresser ← addresser · adersser · adreser · adresesr · adresserr · adressre · adrresser · adrseser
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "adresser" and "agressés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "adresser" vs "agressés" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "adresser" and "agressés" 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 "agressés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #277,341 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adresser" 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 #277,341 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.