Which to use
“cécité” and “cerise” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #27,396
- “cécité” frequency rank
- #11,360
- “cerise” frequency rank
- 38756
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | cécité | cerise |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | État d’une personne aveugle. | Fruit comestible du cerisier charnu, petit et sphérique et à la peau généralement rouge, qui est une drupe. |
Where the eye mixes cécité and cerise
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. cécité and cerise follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between cécité and cerise
A purely visual mix-up. cécité (\se.si.te\) and cerise (\sə.ʁiz\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38756, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
cécité is recorded at frequency rank #27,396, classified as anoun, pronounced \se.si.te\. cerise is at rank #11,360, tagged as anoun, pronounced \sə.ʁiz\.
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 38756, this pair ranks #253,018 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of cécité vs cerise
Shared letters: ci. Private to "cécité": té. Private to "cerise": ers.
"cécité" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "cerise" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- cerise ← ccerise · ceirse · ceries · cerisse · cerrise · cersie · creise · ecrise
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "cécité" and "cerise" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "cécité" or "cerise" 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 "cécité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "cerise" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #253,018 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "cécité" and "cerise" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cerise vs cese". 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 #253,018 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.