âgésvsAPECWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: âgés is a adjective, APEC is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“âgés” is an adjective and “APEC” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,016
“âgés” frequency rank
#43,772
“APEC” frequency rank
50788
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature âgés APEC
Definition Masculin pluriel de âgé. Coopération Économique Asie-Pacifique

Letter map: âgés vs APEC

Shared letters muted; letters that set âgés and APEC apart highlighted. No shared letter run.

4 ch
âgés
4 ch
APEC

Part-of-speech tell for âgés / APEC

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: âgés is anadjective and APECanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50788, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

âgés is recorded at frequency rank #7,016, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ʒe\. APEC is at rank #43,772, tagged as anoun.

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 50788, this pair ranks #159,983 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of âgés vs APEC

Shared letters: none. Private to "âgés": gsâé. Private to "APEC": acep.

"âgés" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "APEC" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • APECaepc · apecc · appec

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "âgés" for "APEC" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "âgés" is an adjective and "APEC" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "âgés" vs "APEC" - which ranks higher?
"âgés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,016 in our French list, against #43,772 for "APEC". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "âgés" and "APEC". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "âgés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "APEC" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #159,983 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "âgés" and "APEC" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "APEC vs aves". 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 #159,983 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