Which to use
“affichées” and “afficher” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,950
- “affichées” frequency rank
- #5,099
- “afficher” frequency rank
- 32049
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | affichées | afficher |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe afficher. | Apposer une affiche. |
Same sound, different letters: affichées vs afficher
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. affichées runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVVC) against afficher's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - affichées / afficher
This is the hard kind. affichées and afficher 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32049, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
affichées is recorded at frequency rank #26,950, classified as averb, pronounced \a.fi.ʃe\. afficher is at rank #5,099, 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 32049, this pair ranks #299,865 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of affichées vs afficher
Shared letters: acefhi. Private to "affichées": sé. Private to "afficher": r.
"affichées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC · "afficher" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- afficher ← affciher · afficcher · afficehr · afficherr · affichher · affichre · affihcer · aficher
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "affichées" and "afficher" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "affichées" or "afficher" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "affichées" / "afficher". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "affichées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "afficher" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #299,865 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "affichées" and "afficher" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "affichées vs affichera". 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 #299,865 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.