Which to use
“valide” and “validée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,258
- “valide” frequency rank
- #18,902
- “validée” frequency rank
- 26160
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | valide | validée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est valable, qui a les conditions requises par la loi pour produire son effet. | Féminin singulier de validé. |
Where the eye mixes valide and validée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: valide vs validée
A purely visual mix-up. valide (\va.lid\) and validée (\va.li.de\) 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 26160, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
valide is recorded at frequency rank #7,258, classified as anadj, pronounced \va.lid\. validée is at rank #18,902, tagged as anadj, pronounced \va.li.de\.
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 26160, this pair ranks #336,785 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of valide vs validée
Shared letters: adeilv. Private to "valide": -. Private to "validée": é.
"valide" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "validée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- valide ← avlide · vailde · valdie · validde · valied · vallide · vlaide · vvalide
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "valide" for "validée" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "valide" or "validée" show up more?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "valide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "validée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #336,785 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "valide" and "validée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "validée vs valident". 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 #336,785 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.