Which to use
“confirmée” is an adjective and “confirmez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,804
- “confirmée” frequency rank
- #38,723
- “confirmez” frequency rank
- 46527
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | confirmée | confirmez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de confirmé. | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de confirmer. |
Same sound, different letters: confirmée vs confirmez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. confirmée (CVCCVCCVV) and confirmez (CVCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Homophone desk: confirmée vs confirmez
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: confirmée and confirmez 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 46527, 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\. confirmez is at rank #38,723, 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 46527, this pair ranks #194,195 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of confirmée vs confirmez
Shared letters: cefimnor. Private to "confirmée": é. Private to "confirmez": z.
"confirmée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV · "confirmez" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- confirmez ← cconfirmez · cnofirmez · cofnirmez · conffirmez · confimrez · confiremz · confirmezz · confirmmez
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "confirmée" for "confirmez" ever safe?
Frequency check: "confirmée" vs "confirmez" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"confirmée" and "confirmez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "confirmée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "confirmez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #194,195 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "confirmée" and "confirmez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "confiez vs confirmez". 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 #194,195 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.