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.
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
- faciliter ← afciliter · facciliter · faciilter · facilietr · faciliterr · facilitre · facilitter · facilliter
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "facilitée" and "faciliter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "facilitée" or "faciliter"?
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.