confirméevsconfirmezWhat's the difference?

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

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.

9 ch
confirmée
9 ch
confirmez

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

  • confirmezcconfirmez · cnofirmez · cofnirmez · conffirmez · confimrez · confiremz · confirmezz · confirmmez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "confirmée" for "confirmez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "confirmée" is an adjective and "confirmez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "confirmée" vs "confirmez" - which ranks higher?
"confirmée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,804 in our French list, against #38,723 for "confirmez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list