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

#12,035
“rassuré” frequency rank
#23,665
“rassurée” frequency rank
35700
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rassuré rassurée
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de rassurer. Participe passé féminin singulier de rassurer.

Same sound, different letters: rassuré vs rassurée

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. rassuré runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against rassurée's 8 (CVCCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
rassuré
8 ch
rassurée

Same sound, different spelling - rassuré / rassurée

This is the hard kind. rassuré and rassurée are pronounced identically (\ʁa.sy.ʁe\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “rassuré” sits inside “rassurée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35700, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rassuré is recorded at frequency rank #12,035, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁa.sy.ʁe\. rassurée is at rank #23,665, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁa.sy.ʁe\.

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 35700, this pair ranks #274,858 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rassuré vs rassurée

Shared letters: arsué. Private to "rassuré": -. Private to "rassurée": e.

"rassuré" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "rassurée" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "rassuré" and "rassurée" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁa.sy.ʁe\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "rassuré" or "rassurée" show up more?
"rassuré" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,035 in our French list, against #23,665 for "rassurée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rassuré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rassurée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #274,858 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rassuré" and "rassurée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rassurée vs rassurent". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #274,858 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