Which to use
“rassurés” and “rassurez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,936
- “rassurés” frequency rank
- #16,223
- “rassurez” frequency rank
- 46159
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | rassurés | rassurez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin pluriel de rassurer. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rassurer. |
Same sound, different letters: rassurés vs rassurez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. rassurés and rassurez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Homophone desk: rassurés vs rassurez
This is the hard kind. rassurés and rassurez 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 46159, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
rassurés is recorded at frequency rank #29,936, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁa.sy.ʁe\. rassurez is at rank #16,223, 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 46159, this pair ranks #197,127 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of rassurés vs rassurez
Shared letters: arsu. Private to "rassurés": é. Private to "rassurez": ez.
"rassurés" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC · "rassurez" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- rassurez ← arssurez · rassruez · rassuerz · rassurezz · rassurrez · rassurze · rasurez · rasusrez
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "rassurés" for "rassurez" ever safe?
Frequency check: "rassurés" vs "rassurez" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "rassurés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "rassurez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #197,127 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "rassurés" and "rassurez" 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 #197,127 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.