rassurentvsrassurésConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#39,492
“rassurent” frequency rank
#29,936
“rassurés” frequency rank
69428
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rassurent rassurés
Definition Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rassurer. Participe passé masculin pluriel de rassurer.

Where the eye mixes rassurent and rassurés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. rassurent runs 9 letters (CVCCVCVCC) against rassurés's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
rassurent
8 ch
rassurés

Look-alike desk: rassurent vs rassurés

A purely visual mix-up. rassurent (\ʁa.syʁ\) and rassurés (\ʁa.sy.ʁe\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69428, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rassurent is recorded at frequency rank #39,492, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁa.syʁ\. rassurés is at rank #29,936, 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 69428, this pair ranks #55,146 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of rassurent vs rassurés

Shared letters: arsu. Private to "rassurent": ent. Private to "rassurés": é.

"rassurent" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVCC  ·  "rassurés" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rassurent ← arssurent · rassruent · rassuernt · rassurennt · rassurentt · rassuretn · rassurnet · rassurrent

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "rassurent" and "rassurés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ʁa.syʁ\ versus \ʁa.sy.ʁe\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "rassurent" vs "rassurés" - which ranks higher?
"rassurés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,936 in our French list, against #39,492 for "rassurent". 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 "rassurent" and "rassurés" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rassurent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rassurés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #55,146 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rassurent" and "rassurés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rassurants vs rassurent". 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 #55,146 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