Which to use
“affichée” and “affichez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,794
- “affichée” frequency rank
- #37,156
- “affichez” frequency rank
- 52950
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affichée | affichez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe afficher. | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe afficher. |
Same sound, different letters: affichée vs affichez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. affichée (VCCVCCVV) and affichez (VCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - affichée / affichez
This is the hard kind. affichée and affichez are pronounced identically (\a.fi.ʃe\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52950, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
affichée is recorded at frequency rank #15,794, classified as averb, pronounced \a.fi.ʃe\. affichez is at rank #37,156, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.fi.ʃe\.
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 52950, this pair ranks #144,150 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of affichée vs affichez
Shared letters: acefhi. Private to "affichée": é. Private to "affichez": z.
"affichée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV · "affichez" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- affichez ← affcihez · afficchez · afficehz · affichezz · affichhez · affichze · affihcez · afichez
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "affichée" for "affichez" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "affichée" or "affichez" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "affichée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "affichez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #144,150 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affichée" and "affichez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affichera vs affichez". 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 #144,150 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.