validées vs valider, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#34,800
“validées” frequency rank: #8,478
“valider” frequency rank: 43278
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	validées	valider
Definition	Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe valider.	Rendre valide ou déclarer valide.

Same sound, different letters: validées vs valider

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. validées runs 8 letters (CVCVCVVC) against valider's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch

validées

7 ch

valider

Ear matches; page differs - validées and valider

This is the hard kind. validées and valider are pronounced identically (\va.li.de\) 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43278, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

validées is recorded at frequency rank #34,800, classified as averb, pronounced \va.li.de\. valider is at rank #8,478, tagged as averb, 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 43278, this pair ranks #219,328 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of validées vs valider

Shared letters: adeilv. Private to "validées": sé. Private to "valider": r.

"validées" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC · "valider" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

valider ← avlider · vailder · valdier · validder · validerr · validre · valiedr · vallider

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "validées" and "valider" be used interchangeably?

No. They are pronounced the same (\va.li.de\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

In ordinary French text, does "validées" or "valider" show up more?

"valider" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,478 in our French list, against #34,800 for "validées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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 "validées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "valider" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #219,328 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"validées" and "valider" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "validées 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 #219,328 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.