agresséesvsagresserTell them apart

Which to use

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

#43,252
“agressées” frequency rank
#13,504
“agresser” frequency rank
56756
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature agressées agresser
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe agresser. Entamer par la force, par la contrainte, par la surprise ou par la ruse l’intégrité physique, psychologique ou sexuelle d’une personne.

Where the eye mixes agressées and agresser

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. agressées runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVVC) against agresser's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
agressées
8 ch
agresser

Why the eye confuses agressées with agresser

A purely visual mix-up. agressées (\a.ɡʁɛ.se\) and agresser (\a.ɡʁe.se\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56756, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

agressées is recorded at frequency rank #43,252, classified as averb, pronounced \a.ɡʁɛ.se\. agresser is at rank #13,504, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.ɡʁe.se\.

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 56756, this pair ranks #119,121 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of agressées vs agresser

Shared letters: aegrs. Private to "agressées": é. Private to "agresser": -.

"agressées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC  ·  "agresser" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • agresser ← agersser · aggresser · agreser · agresesr · agresserr · agressre · agrresser · agrseser

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "agressées" for "agresser" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\a.ɡʁɛ.se\ versus \a.ɡʁe.se\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "agressées" or "agresser" show up more?
"agresser" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,504 in our French list, against #43,252 for "agressées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "agressées" and "agresser" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "agressées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "agresser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #119,121 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "agressées" and "agresser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "agréées vs agressées". 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 #119,121 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