confirméesvsconfirmezConfusable pair

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

Which to use

“confirmées” is an adjective and “confirmez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#20,399
“confirmées” frequency rank
#38,723
“confirmez” frequency rank
59122
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature confirmées confirmez
Definition Féminin pluriel de confirmé. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de confirmer.

Same sound, different letters: confirmées vs confirmez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. confirmées runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCVVC) against confirmez's 9 (CVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
confirmées
9 ch
confirmez

Ear matches; page differs - confirmées and confirmez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: confirmées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59122, 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\. 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 59122, this pair ranks #104,948 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of confirmées vs confirmez

Shared letters: cefimnor. Private to "confirmées": . Private to "confirmez": z.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "confirmées" and "confirmez" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "confirmées" is an adjective and "confirmez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "confirmées" or "confirmez"?
"confirmées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,399 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.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "confirmées" / "confirmez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "confirmées" 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 #104,948 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "confirmées" 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 #104,948 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