Which to use
“confirmée” is an adjective and “confirmer” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,804
- “confirmée” frequency rank
- #4,137
- “confirmer” frequency rank
- 11941
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | confirmée | confirmer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de confirmé. | Faire persister quelqu’un dans une opinion, dans une résolution, l’affermir dans cette opinion, dans cette résolution. |
Same sound, different letters: confirmée vs confirmer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. confirmée (CVCCVCCVV) and confirmer (CVCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - confirmée / confirmer
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: confirmée and confirmer carry the same recorded pronunciation, \kɔ̃.fiʁ.me\. 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 11941, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
confirmée is recorded at frequency rank #7,804, classified as anadj, pronounced \kɔ̃.fiʁ.me\. confirmer is at rank #4,137, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.fiʁ.me\.
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 11941, this pair ranks #407,180 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of confirmée vs confirmer
Shared letters: cefimnor. Private to "confirmée": é. Private to "confirmer": -.
"confirmée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV · "confirmer" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- confirmer ← cconfirmer · cnofirmer · cofnirmer · conffirmer · confimrer · confiremr · confirmerr · confirmmer
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "confirmée" and "confirmer" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "confirmée" or "confirmer"?
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 "confirmée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "confirmer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #407,180 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "confirmée" and "confirmer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "confiner vs confirmer". 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 #407,180 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.