hospitaliséevshospitalitéWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“hospitalisée” and “hospitalité” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#29,804
“hospitalisée” frequency rank
#15,404
“hospitalité” frequency rank
45208
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature hospitalisée hospitalité
Definition Personne admise dans un hôpital, en qualité de malade. État de qui est hospitalier, générosité de cœur, sociabilité qui dispose à accueillir quelqu'un chez soi.

Where the eye mixes hospitalisée and hospitalité

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. hospitalisée runs 12 letters (CVCCVCVCVCVV) against hospitalité's 11 (CVCCVCVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch
hospitalisée
11 ch
hospitalité

Visual trap between hospitalisée and hospitalité

A purely visual mix-up. hospitalisée (^((h muet))\ɔs.pi.ta.li.ze\) and hospitalité (\ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45208, 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\. hospitalité is at rank #15,404, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɔs.pi.ta.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 45208, this pair ranks #204,540 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of hospitalisée vs hospitalité

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

"hospitalisée" · 12 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVCVV  ·  "hospitalité" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "hospitalisée" and "hospitalité" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (^((h muet))\ɔs.pi.ta.li.ze\ versus \ɔs.pi.ta.li.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "hospitalisée" or "hospitalité" show up more?
"hospitalité" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,404 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

Eye-level mix-up between "hospitalisée" and "hospitalité" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "hospitalisée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "hospitalité" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #204,540 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "hospitalisée" and "hospitalité" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "hospitalisée vs hospitalisés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #204,540 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