assuréesvsassurezTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#21,244
“assurées” frequency rank
#13,970
“assurez” frequency rank
35214
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature assurées assurez
Definition Féminin pluriel de assuré. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe assurer.

Same sound, different letters: assurées vs assurez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. assurées runs 8 letters (VCCVCVVC) against assurez's 7 (VCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
assurées
7 ch
assurez

Homophone desk: assurées vs assurez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: assurées and assurez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.sy.ʁe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35214, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

assurées is recorded at frequency rank #21,244, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.sy.ʁe\. assurez is at rank #13,970, tagged as averb, 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 35214, this pair ranks #278,345 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of assurées vs assurez

Shared letters: aersu. Private to "assurées": é. Private to "assurez": z.

"assurées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC  ·  "assurez" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • assurezassruez · assuerz · assurezz · assurrez · assurze · asurez · asusrez · sasurez

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "assurées" and "assurez" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "assurées" is an adjective and "assurez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "assurées" or "assurez"?
"assurez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,970 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.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "assurées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "assurez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #278,345 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "assurées" and "assurez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "assurées vs assures". 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 #278,345 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