avéréevsavérerTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#19,450
“avérée” frequency rank
#15,095
“avérer” frequency rank
34545
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature avérée avérer
Definition Féminin singulier de avéré. Reconnaître ou faire reconnaître pour vrai.

Same sound, different letters: avérée vs avérer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.

6 ch
avérée
6 ch
avérer

Same sound, different spelling - avérée / avérer

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: avérée and avérer carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.ve.ʁe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34545, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

avérée is recorded at frequency rank #19,450, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ve.ʁe\. avérer is at rank #15,095, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.ve.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 34545, this pair ranks #283,059 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of avérée vs avérer

Shared letters: aervé. Private to "avérée": -. Private to "avérer": -.

"avérée" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVV  ·  "avérer" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "avérée" for "avérer" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "avérée" is an adjective and "avérer" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "avérée" or "avérer" show up more?
"avérer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,095 in our French list, against #19,450 for "avérée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"avérée" and "avérer" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "avérée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "avérer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #283,059 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "avérée" and "avérer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "avéra vs avérée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #283,059 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