vérifiées vs vérifier, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#28,405
“vérifiées” frequency rank: #2,156
“vérifier” frequency rank: 30561
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	vérifiées	vérifier
Definition	Participe passé féminin pluriel 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: vérifiées vs vérifier

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

9 ch

vérifiées

8 ch

vérifier

Same sound, different spelling - vérifiées / vérifier

This is the hard kind. vérifiées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30561, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vérifiées is recorded at frequency rank #28,405, 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 30561, this pair ranks #309,479 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vérifiées vs vérifier

Shared letters: efirvé. Private to "vérifiées": s. Private to "vérifier": -.

"vérifiées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVVVC · "vérifier" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "vérifiées" and "vérifier" be used interchangeably?

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.

In ordinary French text, does "vérifiées" or "vérifier" show up more?

"vérifier" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,156 in our French list, against #28,405 for "vérifiées". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

Full dictionary entry for "vérifiées" 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 #309,479 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"vérifiées" and "vérifier" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vérifiées vs vérifiés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #309,479 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.