Which to use
“confirmées” is an adjective and “confirmer” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #20,399
- “confirmées” frequency rank
- #4,137
- “confirmer” frequency rank
- 24536
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | confirmées | confirmer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de confirmé. | Faire persister quelqu’un dans une opinion, dans une résolution, l’affermir dans cette opinion, dans cette résolution. |
Same sound, different letters: confirmées vs confirmer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. confirmées runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCVVC) against confirmer's 9 (CVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: confirmées vs confirmer
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: confirmées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24536, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
confirmées is recorded at frequency rank #20,399, 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 24536, this pair ranks #346,055 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of confirmées vs confirmer
Shared letters: cefimnor. Private to "confirmées": sé. Private to "confirmer": -.
"confirmées" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC · "confirmer" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- confirmer ← cconfirmer · cnofirmer · cofnirmer · conffirmer · confimrer · confiremr · confirmerr · confirmmer
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "confirmées" and "confirmer" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "confirmées" or "confirmer" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "confirmées" 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 #346,055 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "confirmées" and "confirmer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "confirmées 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 #346,055 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.