Which to use
“agité” and “avide” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,594
- “agité” frequency rank
- #19,213
- “avide” frequency rank
- 33807
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | agité | avide |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est animé d’un mouvement vif et irrégulier. | Qui désire quelque chose avec beaucoup d’ardeur. |
Where the eye mixes agité and avide
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Why the eye confuses agité with avide
A purely visual mix-up. agité (\a.ʒi.te\) and avide (\a.vid\) 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 33807, 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\. avide is at rank #19,213, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.vid\.
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 33807, this pair ranks #288,142 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of agité vs avide
Shared letters: ai. Private to "agité": gté. Private to "avide": dev.
"agité" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV · "avide" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- avide ← aivde · avdie · avidde · avied · avvide · vaide
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "agité" for "avide" ever safe?
Which is more common, "agité" or "avide"?
What to do next
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 "avide" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #288,142 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "agité" and "avide" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "alizé vs avide". 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 #288,142 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.