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