agitévsaliceTell them apart

Quick tell: agité is a adjective, alice is an intj, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“agité” is an adjective and “alice” is an intj - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,594
“agité” frequency rank
#5,005
“alice” frequency rank
19599
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature agité alice
Definition Qui est animé d’un mouvement vif et irrégulier. Exclamation de surprise.

Where the eye mixes agité and alice

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

5 ch
agité
5 ch
alice

Look-alike desk: agité vs alice

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: agité is \a.ʒi.te\ while alice is \a.lis\. 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 (adjective vs intj), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19599, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

agité is recorded at frequency rank #14,594, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ʒi.te\. alice is at rank #5,005, tagged as anintj, pronounced \a.lis\.

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 19599, this pair ranks #372,461 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of agité vs alice

Shared letters: ai. Private to "agité": gté. Private to "alice": cel.

"agité" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV  ·  "alice" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • aliceailce · alcie · alicce · aliec · allice · laice

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "agité" for "alice" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "agité" is an adjective and "alice" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "agité" or "alice" show up more?
"alice" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,005 in our French list, against #14,594 for "agité". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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 "agité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "alice" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #372,461 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "agité" and "alice" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agité vs alizé". 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 #372,461 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