Which to use
“finalisé” and “finaliser” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #32,410
- “finalisé” frequency rank
- #22,265
- “finaliser” frequency rank
- 54675
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | finalisé | finaliser |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de finaliser. | Assigner à quelque chose une finalité, un objectif. |
Same sound, different letters: finalisé vs finaliser
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - finalisé / finaliser
This is the hard kind. finalisé and finaliser are pronounced identically (\fi.na.li.ze\) 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54675, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
finalisé is recorded at frequency rank #32,410, classified as averb, pronounced \fi.na.li.ze\. finaliser is at rank #22,265, tagged as averb, pronounced \fi.na.li.ze\.
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 54675, this pair ranks #132,440 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of finalisé vs finaliser
Shared letters: afilns. Private to "finalisé": é. Private to "finaliser": er.
"finalisé" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "finaliser" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- finaliser ← ffinaliser · fianliser · finailser · finaliesr · finaliserr · finalisre · finalisser · finalliser
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "finalisé" for "finaliser" ever safe?
Which is more common, "finalisé" or "finaliser"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "finalisé" / "finaliser". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "finalisé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "finaliser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #132,440 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "finalisé" and "finaliser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "finalisé vs finalisée". 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 #132,440 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.