Which to use
“assuré” and “assurées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,181
- “assuré” frequency rank
- #21,244
- “assurées” frequency rank
- 24425
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | assuré | assurées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est sûr, qui met en sûreté. | Féminin pluriel de assuré. |
Same sound, different letters: assuré vs assurées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. assuré runs 6 letters (VCCVCV) against assurées's 8 (VCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: assuré vs assurées
This is the hard kind. assuré and assurées are pronounced identically (\a.sy.ʁe\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “assuré” sits inside “assurées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24425, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
assuré is recorded at frequency rank #3,181, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.sy.ʁe\. assurées is at rank #21,244, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.sy.ʁe\.
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 24425, this pair ranks #346,714 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of assuré vs assurées
Shared letters: arsué. Private to "assuré": -. Private to "assurées": e.
"assuré" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "assurées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "assuré" and "assurées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "assuré" / "assurées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "assuré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "assurées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #346,714 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "assuré" and "assurées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "assurées vs assures". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #346,714 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.