agitéevsagitéesTell them apart

Quick tell: agitée is a noun, agitées is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#18,928
“agitée” frequency rank
#48,311
“agitées” frequency rank
67239
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature agitée agitées
Definition Femme agitée. Féminin pluriel de agité.

Same sound, different letters: agitée vs agitées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. agitée runs 6 letters (VCVCVV) against agitées's 7 (VCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
agitée
7 ch
agitées

Same sound, different spelling - agitée / agitées

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: agitée and agitées carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.ʒi.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “agitée” sits inside “agitées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67239, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

agitée is recorded at frequency rank #18,928, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.ʒi.te\. agitées is at rank #48,311, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.ʒi.te\.

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 67239, this pair ranks #64,276 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of agitée vs agitées

Shared letters: aegité. Private to "agitée": -. Private to "agitées": s.

"agitée" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVV  ·  "agitées" · 7 letters · shape VCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "agitée" for "agitées" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "agitée" is a noun and "agitées" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "agitée" or "agitées" show up more?
"agitée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,928 in our French list, against #48,311 for "agitées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "agitée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "agitées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #64,276 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "agitée" and "agitées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agitées vs aidées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #64,276 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