Which to use
“adulé” and “adultes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #45,415
- “adulé” frequency rank
- #2,977
- “adultes” frequency rank
- 48392
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adulé | adultes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qualifie une personne ou une entité flattée avec excès. | Pluriel de adulte. |
Where the eye mixes adulé and adultes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. adulé runs 5 letters (VCVCV) against adultes's 7 (VCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: adulé vs adultes
A purely visual mix-up. adulé (\a.dy.le\) and adultes (\a.dylt\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48392, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adulé is recorded at frequency rank #45,415, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.dy.le\. adultes is at rank #2,977, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.dylt\.
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 48392, this pair ranks #179,289 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of adulé vs adultes
Shared letters: adlu. Private to "adulé": é. Private to "adultes": est.
"adulé" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV · "adultes" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- adultes ← addultes · adlutes · adulets · adulltes · adultess · adultse · adulttes · adutles
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "adulé" and "adultes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "adulé" or "adultes"?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "adulé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adultes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #179,289 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adulé" and "adultes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adulé vs Aure". 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 #179,289 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.