rassurervsrassurésWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#6,431
“rassurer” frequency rank
#29,936
“rassurés” frequency rank
36367
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Same sound, different letters: rassurer vs rassurés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. rassurer and rassurés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
rassurer
8 ch
rassurés

Ear matches; page differs - rassurer and rassurés

This is the hard kind. rassurer and rassurés 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36367, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rassurer is recorded at frequency rank #6,431, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁa.sy.ʁe\. 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 36367, this pair ranks #270,115 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rassurer vs rassurés

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

"rassurer" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC  ·  "rassurés" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "rassurer" and "rassurés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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: "rassurer" vs "rassurés" - which ranks higher?
"rassurer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,431 in our French list, against #29,936 for "rassurés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "rassurer" 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 #270,115 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rassurer" and "rassurés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rassurent vs rassurés". 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 #270,115 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