hospitaliséevshospitalisésTell them apart

Quick tell: hospitalisée is a noun, hospitalisés is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“hospitalisée” is a noun and “hospitalisés” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#29,804
“hospitalisée” frequency rank
#28,988
“hospitalisés” frequency rank
58792
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hospitalisée hospitalisés
Definition Personne admise dans un hôpital, en qualité de malade. Masculin pluriel de hospitalisé.

Same sound, different letters: hospitalisée vs hospitalisés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. hospitalisée (CVCCVCVCVCVV) and hospitalisés (CVCCVCVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

12 ch
hospitalisée
12 ch
hospitalisés

Homophone desk: hospitalisée vs hospitalisés

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: hospitalisée and hospitalisés carry the same recorded pronunciation, ^((h muet))\ɔs.pi.ta.li.ze\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by a single letter - e in “hospitalisée” becomes s in “hospitalisés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58792, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

hospitalisée is recorded at frequency rank #29,804, classified as anoun, pronounced ^((h muet))\ɔs.pi.ta.li.ze\. hospitalisés is at rank #28,988, tagged as anadj, pronounced ^((h muet))\ɔs.pi.ta.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 58792, this pair ranks #106,895 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of hospitalisée vs hospitalisés

Shared letters: ahilopsté. Private to "hospitalisée": e. Private to "hospitalisés": -.

"hospitalisée" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVCVV  ·  "hospitalisés" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "hospitalisée" and "hospitalisés" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "hospitalisée" is a noun and "hospitalisés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "hospitalisée" or "hospitalisés"?
"hospitalisés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,988 in our French list, against #29,804 for "hospitalisée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hospitalisée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hospitalisés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #106,895 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hospitalisée" and "hospitalisés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hospitalières vs hospitalisés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #106,895 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