annuléevsannulerTell them apart

Quick tell: annulée is a adjective, annuler is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“annulée” is an adjective and “annuler” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#10,630
“annulée” frequency rank
#5,725
“annuler” frequency rank
16355
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature annulée annuler
Definition Féminin singulier de annulé. Rendre nul.

Same sound, different letters: annulée vs annuler

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.

7 ch
annulée
7 ch
annuler

Same sound, different spelling - annulée / annuler

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: annulée and annuler carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.ny.le\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16355, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

annulée is recorded at frequency rank #10,630, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ny.le\. annuler is at rank #5,725, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.ny.le\.

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 16355, this pair ranks #388,201 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of annulée vs annuler

Shared letters: aelnu. Private to "annulée": é. Private to "annuler": r.

"annulée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV  ·  "annuler" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • annulerannluer · annuelr · annulerr · annuller · annulre · anuler · anunler · nanuler

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "annulée" and "annuler" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "annulée" is an adjective and "annuler" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "annulée" or "annuler"?
"annuler" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,725 in our French list, against #10,630 for "annulée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "annulée" / "annuler". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "annulée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "annuler" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #388,201 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "annulée" and "annuler" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "annuité vs annulée". 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 #388,201 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