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“attirer” and “attirera” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#3,381
“attirer” frequency rank
#36,709
“attirera” frequency rank
40090
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature attirer attirera
Definition Tirer à soi, faire venir à soi. Troisième personne du singulier du futur du verbe attirer.

Where the eye mixes attirer and attirera

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.

7 ch
attirer
8 ch
attirera

Look-alike desk: attirer vs attirera

A purely visual mix-up. attirer (\a.ti.ʁe\) and attirera (\a.ti.ʁə.ʁa\) 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 extra letter(s) - “attirer” sits inside “attirera”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40090, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

attirer is recorded at frequency rank #3,381, classified as averb, pronounced \a.ti.ʁe\. attirera is at rank #36,709, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.ti.ʁə.ʁa\.

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 40090, this pair ranks #243,124 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of attirer vs attirera

Shared letters: aeirt. Private to "attirer": -. Private to "attirera": -.

"attirer" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC  ·  "attirera" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • attireratirer · atitrer · attierr · attirerr · attirre · attirrer · attrier · tatirer
  • attireraatirera · atitrera · attierra · attirear · attirerra · attirrea · attirrera · attriera

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "attirer" for "attirera" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\a.ti.ʁe\ versus \a.ti.ʁə.ʁa\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "attirer" or "attirera"?
"attirer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,381 in our French list, against #36,709 for "attirera". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "attirer" and "attirera" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "attirer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "attirera" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #243,124 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "attirer" and "attirera" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "attirées vs attirera". 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 #243,124 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