indexévsIndreTell them apart

Quick tell: indexé is a adjective, Indre is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“indexé” is an adjective and “Indre” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#43,498
“indexé” frequency rank
#14,957
“Indre” frequency rank
58455
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature indexé Indre
Definition Qui fait l’objet d’une indexation. Rivière de France, affluent de la Loire, coulant dans le Cher, l’Indre et l’Indre-et-Loire.

Where the eye mixes indexé and Indre

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. indexé runs 6 letters (VCCVCV) against Indre's 5 (VCCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
indexé
5 ch
Indre

Look-alike desk: indexé vs Indre

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: indexé is \ɛ̃.dɛ.kse\ while Indre is \ɛ̃dʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs name), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58455, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

indexé is recorded at frequency rank #43,498, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.dɛ.kse\. Indre is at rank #14,957, tagged as aname, pronounced \ɛ̃dʁ\.

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 58455, this pair ranks #108,984 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of indexé vs Indre

Shared letters: dein. Private to "indexé": xé. Private to "Indre": r.

"indexé" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV  ·  "Indre" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Indre ← idnre · inddre · inder · indrre · inndre · inrde · nidre

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "indexé" for "Indre" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "indexé" is an adjective and "Indre" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "indexé" or "Indre"?
"Indre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,957 in our French list, against #43,498 for "indexé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "indexé" and "Indre" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "indexé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Indre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #108,984 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "indexé" and "Indre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "indexé vs indexés". 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 #108,984 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