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“agrandi” and “agrandis” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#25,877
“agrandi” frequency rank
#46,564
“agrandis” frequency rank
72441
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature agrandi agrandis
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de agrandir. Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de agrandir.

Same sound, different letters: agrandi vs agrandis

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. agrandi runs 7 letters (VCCVCCV) against agrandis's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
agrandi
8 ch
agrandis

Homophone desk: agrandi vs agrandis

This is the hard kind. agrandi and agrandis are pronounced identically (\a.ɡʁɑ̃.di\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “agrandi” sits inside “agrandis”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72441, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

agrandi is recorded at frequency rank #25,877, classified as averb, pronounced \a.ɡʁɑ̃.di\. agrandis is at rank #46,564, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.ɡʁɑ̃.di\.

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 72441, this pair ranks #43,986 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of agrandi vs agrandis

Shared letters: adginr. Private to "agrandi": -. Private to "agrandis": s.

"agrandi" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV  ·  "agrandis" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • agrandi ← agarndi · aggrandi · agradni · agranddi · agranid · agranndi · agrnadi · agrrandi
  • agrandis ← agarndis · aggrandis · agradnis · agranddis · agrandiss · agrandsi · agranids · agranndis

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "agrandi" and "agrandis" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.ɡʁɑ̃.di\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "agrandi" vs "agrandis" - which ranks higher?
"agrandi" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,877 in our French list, against #46,564 for "agrandis". 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 "agrandi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "agrandis" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #43,986 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "agrandi" and "agrandis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agrandie vs agrandis". 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 #43,986 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