Which to use
“agité” and “alive” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,594
- “agité” frequency rank
- #33,968
- “alive” frequency rank
- 48562
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | agité | alive |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est animé d’un mouvement vif et irrégulier. | En vie, vivant. |
Where the eye mixes agité and alive
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. agité and alive follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: agité vs alive
A purely visual mix-up. agité (\a.ʒi.te\) and alive (\əˈlaɪv\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48562, 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\. alive is at rank #33,968, tagged as anadj, pronounced \əˈlaɪv\.
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 48562, this pair ranks #177,945 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of agité vs alive
Shared letters: ai. Private to "agité": gté. Private to "alive": elv.
"agité" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV · "alive" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- alive ← ailve · aliev · alivve · allive · alvie · laive
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "agité" and "alive" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "agité" or "alive" show up more?
Useful next steps
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "agité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "alive" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #177,945 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "agité" and "alive" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "alive 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 #177,945 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.