facilitéevsfaciliterTell them apart

Which to use

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

#27,807
“facilitée” frequency rank
#4,331
“faciliter” frequency rank
32138
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature facilitée faciliter
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de faciliter. Rendre facile.

Same sound, different letters: facilitée vs faciliter

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

9 ch
facilitée
9 ch
faciliter

Ear matches; page differs - facilitée and faciliter

This is the hard kind. facilitée and faciliter are pronounced identically (\fa.si.li.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 32138, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

facilitée is recorded at frequency rank #27,807, classified as averb, pronounced \fa.si.li.te\. faciliter is at rank #4,331, tagged as averb, pronounced \fa.si.li.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 32138, this pair ranks #299,285 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of facilitée vs faciliter

Shared letters: acefilt. Private to "facilitée": é. Private to "faciliter": r.

"facilitée" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVV  ·  "faciliter" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • faciliterafciliter · facciliter · faciilter · facilietr · faciliterr · facilitre · facilitter · facilliter

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "facilitée" and "faciliter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\fa.si.li.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "facilitée" or "faciliter"?
"faciliter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,331 in our French list, against #27,807 for "facilitée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "facilitée" / "faciliter". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "facilitée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "faciliter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #299,285 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "facilitée" and "faciliter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "facilitée vs facilitera". 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 #299,285 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