mixévsmoreTell them apart

Quick tell: mixé is a verb, more is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mixé” is a verb and “more” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,872
“mixé” frequency rank
#6,852
“more” frequency rank
47724
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mixé more
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de mixer. Unité phonologique de durée ou de poids d’une syllabe dans certaines langues, typiquement une voyelle courte ayant une more et une voyelle longue deux mores.

Where the eye mixes mixé and more

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 1 letter in sequence.

4 ch
mixé
4 ch
more

Look-alike desk: mixé vs more

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mixé is \mik.se\ while more is \mɔʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47724, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mixé is recorded at frequency rank #40,872, classified as averb, pronounced \mik.se\. more is at rank #6,852, tagged as anoun, pronounced \mɔʁ\.

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 47724, this pair ranks #184,659 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mixé vs more

Shared letters: m. Private to "mixé": ixé. Private to "more": eor.

"mixé" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "more" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • moremmore · moer · morre · mroe · omre

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "mixé" and "more" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mixé" is a verb and "more" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "mixé" or "more" show up more?
"more" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,852 in our French list, against #40,872 for "mixé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mixé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "more" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #184,659 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mixé" and "more" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mito vs mixé". 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 #184,659 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