aggravéesvsaggraventWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#46,563
“aggravées” frequency rank
#38,634
“aggravent” frequency rank
85197
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature aggravées aggravent
Definition Pluriel de aggravée. Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe aggraver.

Where the eye mixes aggravées and aggravent

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. aggravées (VCCCVCVVC) and aggravent (VCCCVCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

9 ch
aggravées
9 ch
aggravent

Look-alike desk: aggravées vs aggravent

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: aggravées is \a.ɡʁa.ve\ while aggravent is \a.ɡʁav\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85197, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

aggravées is recorded at frequency rank #46,563, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.ɡʁa.ve\. aggravent is at rank #38,634, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.ɡʁav\.

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 85197, this pair ranks #11,742 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of aggravées vs aggravent

Shared letters: aegrv. Private to "aggravées": sé. Private to "aggravent": nt.

"aggravées" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC  ·  "aggravent" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aggravent ← aggarvent · aggraevnt · aggravennt · aggraventt · aggravetn · aggravnet · aggravvent · aggrravent

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "aggravées" and "aggravent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "aggravées" is a noun and "aggravent" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "aggravées" vs "aggravent" - which ranks higher?
"aggravent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,634 in our French list, against #46,563 for "aggravées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "aggravées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "aggravent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #11,742 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "aggravées" and "aggravent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "aggravante vs aggravent". 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 #11,742 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