adressonsvsagressionsConfusable pair

Quick tell: adressons is a verb, agressions is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“adressons” is a verb and “agressions” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#46,559
“adressons” frequency rank
#7,515
“agressions” frequency rank
54074
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adressons agressions
Definition Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe adresser. Pluriel de agression.

Where the eye mixes adressons and agressions

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. adressons runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVCC) against agressions's 10 (VCCVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
adressons
10 ch
agressions

Visual trap between adressons and agressions

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: adressons is \a.dʁe.sɔ̃\ while agressions is \a.ɡʁe.sjɔ̃\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54074, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

adressons is recorded at frequency rank #46,559, classified as averb, pronounced \a.dʁe.sɔ̃\. agressions is at rank #7,515, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.ɡʁe.sjɔ̃\.

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 54074, this pair ranks #136,483 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of adressons vs agressions

Shared letters: aenors. Private to "adressons": d. Private to "agressions": gi.

"adressons" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC  ·  "agressions" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adressons ← addressons · aderssons · adresons · adresosns · adressnos · adressonns · adressonss · adressosn
  • agressions ← agerssions · aggressions · agresions · agresisons · agressinos · agressionns · agressionss · agressiosn

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "adressons" for "agressions" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "adressons" is a verb and "agressions" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "adressons" or "agressions" show up more?
"agressions" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,515 in our French list, against #46,559 for "adressons". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "adressons" and "agressions" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "adressons" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "agressions" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #136,483 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adressons" and "agressions" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adhésions 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 #136,483 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list