assuréevsassuréesWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#6,051
“assurée” frequency rank
#21,244
“assurées” frequency rank
27295
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature assurée assurées
Definition Femme qui a contracté une assurance. Féminin pluriel de assuré.

Same sound, different letters: assurée vs assurées

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

7 ch
assurée
8 ch
assurées

Same sound, different spelling - assurée / assurées

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: assurée and assurées carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.sy.ʁe\. 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) - “assurée” sits inside “assurées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27295, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

assurée is recorded at frequency rank #6,051, classified as anoun, 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 27295, this pair ranks #329,895 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of assurée vs assurées

Shared letters: aersué. Private to "assurée": -. Private to "assurées": -.

"assurée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV  ·  "assurées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "assurée" for "assurées" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "assurée" is a noun and "assurées" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "assurée" or "assurées" show up more?
"assurée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,051 in our French list, against #21,244 for "assurées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "assurée" 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 #329,895 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "assurée" and "assurées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "assurées vs assures". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #329,895 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