confirméesvsconfirmerConfusable pair

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

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.

10 ch
confirmées
9 ch
confirmer

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": . Private to "confirmer": -.

"confirmées" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC  ·  "confirmer" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • confirmercconfirmer · cnofirmer · cofnirmer · conffirmer · confimrer · confiremr · confirmerr · confirmmer

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "confirmées" and "confirmer" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "confirmées" is an adjective and "confirmer" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "confirmées" or "confirmer" show up more?
"confirmer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,137 in our French list, against #20,399 for "confirmées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list