Which to use
“bannir” and “bannit” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,353
- “bannir” frequency rank
- #42,178
- “bannit” frequency rank
- 59531
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | bannir | bannit |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Condamner une personne à sortir d’un pays, à être chassée ou transportée hors d’un territoire, avec défense d’y rentrer. | Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de bannir. |
Where the eye mixes bannir and bannit
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. bannir and bannit follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between bannir and bannit
A purely visual mix-up. bannir (\ba.niʁ\) and bannit (\ba.ni\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - r in “bannir” becomes t in “bannit”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59531, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
bannir is recorded at frequency rank #17,353, classified as averb, pronounced \ba.niʁ\. bannit is at rank #42,178, tagged as averb, pronounced \ba.ni\.
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 59531, this pair ranks #102,621 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of bannir vs bannit
Shared letters: abin. Private to "bannir": r. Private to "bannit": t.
"bannir" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "bannit" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "bannir" for "bannit" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "bannir" or "bannit" show up more?
Useful next steps
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "bannir" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "bannit" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #102,621 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "bannir" and "bannit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bannit vs battit". 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 #102,621 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.