Which to use
“discutée” and “discuter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #23,172
- “discutée” frequency rank
- #2,171
- “discuter” frequency rank
- 25343
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | discutée | discuter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de discuter. | Examiner, débattre avec quelqu’un une question, une affaire avec soin, avec exactitude, et en bien considérer le pour et le contre. |
Same sound, different letters: discutée vs discuter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. discutée (CVCCVCVV) and discuter (CVCCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - discutée / discuter
This is the hard kind. discutée and discuter are pronounced identically (\dis.ky.te\) 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 25343, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
discutée is recorded at frequency rank #23,172, classified as averb, pronounced \dis.ky.te\. discuter is at rank #2,171, tagged as averb, pronounced \dis.ky.te\.
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 25343, this pair ranks #341,398 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of discutée vs discuter
Shared letters: cdeistu. Private to "discutée": é. Private to "discuter": r.
"discutée" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVV · "discuter" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- discuter ← ddiscuter · dicsuter · disccuter · disctuer · discuetr · discuterr · discutre · discutter
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "discutée" and "discuter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "discutée" or "discuter" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "discutée" / "discuter". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "discutée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "discuter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #341,398 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "discutée" and "discuter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "discutée vs discutera". 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 #341,398 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.