organiséesvsorganiserWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#6,983
“organisées” frequency rank
#2,728
“organiser” frequency rank
9711
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature organisées organiser
Definition Féminin pluriel de organisé. Disposer les parties d’un corps pour les fonctions auxquelles il est destiné.

Where the eye mixes organisées and organiser

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. organisées runs 10 letters (VCCVCVCVVC) against organiser's 9 (VCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
organisées
9 ch
organiser

Look-alike desk: organisées vs organiser

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: organisées is \ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.ze\ while organiser is \ɔʁ.ga.ni.ze\. 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 (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9711, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

organisées is recorded at frequency rank #6,983, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɔʁ.ɡa.ni.ze\. organiser is at rank #2,728, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɔʁ.ga.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 9711, this pair ranks #415,703 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of organisées vs organiser

Shared letters: aeginors. Private to "organisées": é. Private to "organiser": -.

"organisées" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCVVC  ·  "organiser" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • organiser ← ograniser · oragniser · orgainser · organiesr · organiserr · organisre · organisser · organniser

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "organisées" and "organiser" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "organisées" is an adjective and "organiser" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "organisées" or "organiser"?
"organiser" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,728 in our French list, against #6,983 for "organisées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "organisées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "organiser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #415,703 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "organisées" and "organiser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "organisées 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 #415,703 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