facilitéevsfacilitésTell them apart

Quick tell: facilitée is a verb, facilités is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“facilitée” is a verb and “facilités” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#27,807
“facilitée” frequency rank
#18,199
“facilités” frequency rank
46006
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature facilitée facilités
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de faciliter. Pluriel de facilité.

Same sound, different letters: facilitée vs facilités

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. facilitée (CVCVCVCVV) and facilités (CVCVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

9 ch
facilitée
9 ch
facilités

Ear matches; page differs - facilitée and facilités

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: facilitée and facilités carry the same recorded pronunciation, \fa.si.li.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anoun, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by a single letter - e in “facilitée” becomes s in “facilités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46006, 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\. facilités is at rank #18,199, tagged as anoun, 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 46006, this pair ranks #198,363 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of facilitée vs facilités

Shared letters: acfilté. Private to "facilitée": e. Private to "facilités": s.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "facilitée" and "facilités" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "facilitée" is a verb and "facilités" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "facilitée" vs "facilités" - which ranks higher?
"facilités" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,199 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.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "facilitée" / "facilités". 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 "facilités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #198,363 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "facilitée" and "facilités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "facilitée vs facilitera". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #198,363 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