vérifier vs vérifiés, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#2,156
“vérifier” frequency rank: #29,191
“vérifiés” frequency rank: 31347
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Same sound, different letters: vérifier vs vérifiés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. vérifier and vérifiés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch

vérifier

8 ch

vérifiés

Homophone desk: vérifier vs vérifiés

This is the hard kind. vérifier and vérifiés 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 31347, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vérifier is recorded at frequency rank #2,156, classified as averb, pronounced \ve.ʁi.fje\. vérifiés is at rank #29,191, 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 31347, this pair ranks #304,362 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vérifier vs vérifiés

Shared letters: firvé. Private to "vérifier": e. Private to "vérifiés": s.

"vérifier" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC · "vérifiés" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "vérifier" and "vérifiés" 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.

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

"vérifier" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,156 in our French list, against #29,191 for "vérifiés". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

Full dictionary entry for "vérifier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "vérifiés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #304,362 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"vérifier" and "vérifiés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vérifient vs vérifiés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #304,362 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.