Which to use
“radiée” and “radier” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #44,125
- “radiée” frequency rank
- #41,992
- “radier” frequency rank
- 86117
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | radiée | radier |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Fleur radiée. | Plate-forme en béton, en pierre, en charpente, etc. sur laquelle on assoit un bâtiment. |
Same sound, different letters: radiée vs radier
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Homophone desk: radiée vs radier
This is the hard kind. radiée and radier are pronounced identically (\ʁa.dje\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 86117, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
radiée is recorded at frequency rank #44,125, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁa.dje\. radier is at rank #41,992, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁa.dje\.
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 86117, this pair ranks #10,204 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of radiée vs radier
Shared letters: adeir. Private to "radiée": é. Private to "radier": -.
"radiée" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVV · "radier" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- radier ← ardier · raddier · radeir · radierr · radire · rdaier · rradier
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "radiée" for "radier" ever safe?
Frequency check: "radiée" vs "radier" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"radiée" and "radier" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "radiée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "radier" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #10,204 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "radiée" and "radier" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "radial vs radiée". 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 #10,204 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.