organiséevsorganisezWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: organisée is a adjective, organisez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“organisée” is an adjective and “organisez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#3,344
“organisée” frequency rank
#37,460
“organisez” frequency rank
40804
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature organisée organisez
Definition Féminin singulier de organisé. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de organiser.

Same sound, different letters: organisée vs organisez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. organisée (VCCVCVCVV) and organisez (VCCVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

9 ch
organisée
9 ch
organisez

Homophone desk: organisée vs organisez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: organisée and organisez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.ze\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, 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 40804, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

organisée is recorded at frequency rank #3,344, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.ze\. organisez is at rank #37,460, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.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 40804, this pair ranks #237,788 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of organisée vs organisez

Shared letters: aeginors. Private to "organisée": é. Private to "organisez": z.

"organisée" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVV  ·  "organisez" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • organisezogranisez · oragnisez · orgainsez · organiesz · organisezz · organissez · organisze · organnisez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "organisée" for "organisez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "organisée" is an adjective and "organisez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "organisée" or "organisez"?
"organisée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,344 in our French list, against #37,460 for "organisez". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

"organisée" and "organisez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "organisée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "organisez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #237,788 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "organisée" and "organisez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "organisa vs organisez". 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 #237,788 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