Which to use
“attends” and “attendue” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,468
- “attends” frequency rank
- #11,345
- “attendue” frequency rank
- 12813
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | attends | attendue |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de attendre. | Féminin singulier du participe passé du verbe attendre. |
Where the eye mixes attends and attendue
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: attends vs attendue
A purely visual mix-up. attends (\a.tɑ̃\) and attendue (\a.tɑ̃.dy\) 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 12813, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
attends is recorded at frequency rank #1,468, classified as averb, pronounced \a.tɑ̃\. attendue is at rank #11,345, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.tɑ̃.dy\.
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 12813, this pair ranks #403,639 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of attends vs attendue
Shared letters: adent. Private to "attends": s. Private to "attendue": u.
"attends" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCC · "attendue" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "attends" and "attendue" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "attends" or "attendue" show up more?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "attends" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "attendue" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #403,639 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "attends" and "attendue" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "attendue vs atténuée". 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 #403,639 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.