actualiséevsactualiserWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#40,581
“actualisée” frequency rank
#34,393
“actualiser” frequency rank
74974
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature actualisée actualiser
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe actualiser. Concrétiser, réaliser, faire passer une chose du virtuel au réel (ou plutôt à l’actuel, au sens philosophique ou ancien).

Same sound, different letters: actualisée vs actualiser

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.

10 ch
actualisée
10 ch
actualiser

Same sound, different spelling - actualisée / actualiser

This is the hard kind. actualisée and actualiser are pronounced identically (\ak.tɥa.li.ze\) 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 74974, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

actualisée is recorded at frequency rank #40,581, classified as averb, pronounced \ak.tɥa.li.ze\. actualiser is at rank #34,393, tagged as averb, pronounced \ak.tɥa.li.ze\.

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 74974, this pair ranks #35,477 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of actualisée vs actualiser

Shared letters: aceilstu. Private to "actualisée": é. Private to "actualiser": r.

"actualisée" · 10 letters · shape VCCVVCVCVV  ·  "actualiser" · 10 letters · shape VCCVVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • actualiseracctualiser · actauliser · acttualiser · actuailser · actualiesr · actualiserr · actualisre · actualisser

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "actualisée" for "actualiser" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ak.tɥa.li.ze\), 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 "actualisée" or "actualiser" show up more?
"actualiser" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #34,393 in our French list, against #40,581 for "actualisée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "actualisée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "actualiser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #35,477 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "actualisée" and "actualiser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "actualisée vs actualités". 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 #35,477 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