Which to use
“faciliter” is a verb and “facilités” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #4,331
- “faciliter” frequency rank
- #18,199
- “facilités” frequency rank
- 22530
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | faciliter | facilités |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Rendre facile. | Pluriel de facilité. |
Same sound, different letters: faciliter vs facilités
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. faciliter and facilités follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - faciliter and facilités
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: faciliter 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22530, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
faciliter is recorded at frequency rank #4,331, 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 22530, this pair ranks #357,494 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of faciliter vs facilités
Shared letters: acfilt. Private to "faciliter": er. Private to "facilités": sé.
"faciliter" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC · "facilités" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- faciliter ← afciliter · facciliter · faciilter · facilietr · faciliterr · facilitre · facilitter · facilliter
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "faciliter" for "facilités" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "faciliter" or "facilités" show up more?
What to do next
"faciliter" and "facilités" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "faciliter" 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 #357,494 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "faciliter" and "facilités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "facilitera vs facilités". 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 #357,494 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.