rassurévsrassurerWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#12,035
“rassuré” frequency rank
#6,431
“rassurer” frequency rank
18466
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rassuré rassurer
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de rassurer. Redonner l’assurance, rendre la confiance, la tranquillité, le sentiment de sécurité.

Same sound, different letters: rassuré vs rassurer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. rassuré runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against rassurer's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
rassuré
8 ch
rassurer

Ear matches; page differs - rassuré and rassurer

This is the hard kind. rassuré and rassurer 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18466, 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\. rassurer is at rank #6,431, 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 18466, this pair ranks #378,177 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of rassuré vs rassurer

Shared letters: arsu. Private to "rassuré": é. Private to "rassurer": e.

"rassuré" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "rassurer" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rassurer ← arssurer · rassruer · rassuerr · rassurerr · rassurre · rassurrer · rasurer · rasusrer

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rassuré" for "rassurer" ever safe?
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.
Frequency check: "rassuré" vs "rassurer" - which ranks higher?
"rassurer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,431 in our French list, against #12,035 for "rassuré". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "rassuré" / "rassurer". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rassuré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rassurer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #378,177 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rassuré" and "rassurer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rassuré vs rayure". 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 #378,177 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