Which to use
“avorté” and “avortée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,846
- “avorté” frequency rank
- #40,615
- “avortée” frequency rank
- 69461
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | avorté | avortée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Se dit d’un organe d’une plante qui ne s’est pas développé là où il devrait se développer. | Féminin singulier de avorté. |
Same sound, different letters: avorté vs avortée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. avorté runs 6 letters (VCVCCV) against avortée's 7 (VCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - avorté / avortée
This is the hard kind. avorté and avortée are pronounced identically (\a.vɔʁ.te\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “avorté” sits inside “avortée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69461, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
avorté is recorded at frequency rank #28,846, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.vɔʁ.te\. avortée is at rank #40,615, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.vɔʁ.te\.
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 69461, this pair ranks #55,018 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of avorté vs avortée
Shared letters: aortvé. Private to "avorté": -. Private to "avortée": e.
"avorté" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCV · "avortée" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "avorté" for "avortée" ever safe?
Frequency check: "avorté" vs "avortée" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"avorté" and "avortée" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "avorté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "avortée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #55,018 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "avorté" and "avortée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "avortée vs avouée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #55,018 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.