rehaussévsrehausserConfusable pair

Quick tell: rehaussé is a adjective, rehausser is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“rehaussé” is an adjective and “rehausser” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#37,522
“rehaussé” frequency rank
#32,155
“rehausser” frequency rank
69677
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rehaussé rehausser
Definition Se dit d’un meuble, d’une pièce dont la bordure est d’un autre émail. Hausser davantage.

Same sound, different letters: rehaussé vs rehausser

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. rehaussé runs 8 letters (CVCVVCCV) against rehausser's 9 (CVCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
rehaussé
9 ch
rehausser

Same sound, different spelling - rehaussé / rehausser

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: rehaussé and rehausser carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ʁə.o.se\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69677, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rehaussé is recorded at frequency rank #37,522, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.o.se\. rehausser is at rank #32,155, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.o.se\.

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 69677, this pair ranks #54,257 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of rehaussé vs rehausser

Shared letters: aehrsu. Private to "rehaussé": é. Private to "rehausser": -.

"rehaussé" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV  ·  "rehausser" · 9 letters · shape CVCVVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rehausser ← erhausser · reahusser · rehasuser · rehauser · rehausesr · rehausserr · rehaussre · rehhausser

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "rehaussé" and "rehausser" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rehaussé" is an adjective and "rehausser" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "rehaussé" or "rehausser"?
"rehausser" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,155 in our French list, against #37,522 for "rehaussé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"rehaussé" and "rehausser" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rehaussé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rehausser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #54,257 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rehaussé" and "rehausser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rehaussé vs rehaussée". 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 #54,257 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