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.
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?
Frequency check: "rassuré" vs "rassurer" - which ranks higher?
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.