vérifiéevsvérifierConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#24,079
“vérifiée” frequency rank
#2,156
“vérifier” frequency rank
26235
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vérifiée vérifier
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de vérifier. Examiner, rechercher si une chose est vraie, si elle est telle qu’elle doit être ou qu’on l’a déclarée.

Same sound, different letters: vérifiée vs vérifier

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. vérifiée (CVCVCVVV) and vérifier (CVCVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
vérifiée
8 ch
vérifier

Ear matches; page differs - vérifiée and vérifier

This is the hard kind. vérifiée and vérifier are pronounced identically (\ve.ʁi.fje\) 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 26235, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vérifiée is recorded at frequency rank #24,079, classified as averb, pronounced \ve.ʁi.fje\. vérifier is at rank #2,156, tagged as averb, pronounced \ve.ʁi.fje\.

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 26235, this pair ranks #336,299 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of vérifiée vs vérifier

Shared letters: efirvé. Private to "vérifiée": -. Private to "vérifier": -.

"vérifiée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVV  ·  "vérifier" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "vérifiée" and "vérifier" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ve.ʁi.fje\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "vérifiée" or "vérifier"?
"vérifier" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,156 in our French list, against #24,079 for "vérifiée". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "vérifiée" / "vérifier". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vérifiée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vérifier" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #336,299 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vérifiée" and "vérifier" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vérifiée vs vérifiés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #336,299 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