offrezvsoffrirWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“offrez” and “offrir” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#14,989
“offrez” frequency rank
#1,569
“offrir” frequency rank
16558
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature offrez offrir
Definition Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de offrir. Présenter quelque chose à quelqu’un, en souhaitant qu’il l’accepte.

Where the eye mixes offrez and offrir

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

6 ch
offrez
6 ch
offrir

Visual trap between offrez and offrir

A purely visual mix-up. offrez (\ɔ.fʁe\) and offrir (\ɔ.fʁiʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16558, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

offrez is recorded at frequency rank #14,989, classified as averb, pronounced \ɔ.fʁe\. offrir is at rank #1,569, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɔ.fʁiʁ\.

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 16558, this pair ranks #387,286 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of offrez vs offrir

Shared letters: for. Private to "offrez": ez. Private to "offrir": i.

"offrez" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC  ·  "offrir" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • offrezfofrez · offerz · offrezz · offrrez · offrze · ofrez · ofrfez
  • offrirfofrir · offirr · offrirr · offrri · offrrir · ofrfir · ofrir

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "offrez" for "offrir" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ɔ.fʁe\ versus \ɔ.fʁiʁ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "offrez" or "offrir" show up more?
"offrir" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,569 in our French list, against #14,989 for "offrez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "offrez" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "offrir" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #387,286 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "offrez" and "offrir" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "offrez vs offset". 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 #387,286 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