inviteravsinvitésTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#42,407
“invitera” frequency rank
#2,882
“invités” frequency rank
45289
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature invitera invités
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du futur de inviter. Pluriel de invité.

Where the eye mixes invitera and invités

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. invitera runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCV) against invités's 7 (VCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
invitera
7 ch
invités

Visual trap between invitera and invités

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: invitera is \ɛ̃.vi.tə.ʁa\ while invités is \ɛ̃.vi.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45289, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

invitera is recorded at frequency rank #42,407, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛ̃.vi.tə.ʁa\. invités is at rank #2,882, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.vi.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 45289, this pair ranks #203,906 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of invitera vs invités

Shared letters: intv. Private to "invitera": aer. Private to "invités": sé.

"invitera" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV  ·  "invités" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • invitera ← inivtera · innvitera · invietra · invitear · inviterra · invitrea · invittera · invtiera

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "invitera" and "invités" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "invitera" is a verb and "invités" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "invitera" or "invités"?
"invités" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,882 in our French list, against #42,407 for "invitera". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "invitera" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "invités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #203,906 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "invitera" and "invités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "invétéré vs invitera". 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 #203,906 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