Which to use
“quittée” and “quitter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,349
- “quittée” frequency rank
- #1,538
- “quitter” frequency rank
- 25887
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | quittée | quitter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de quitter. | Laisser quelqu’un quelque part ; se séparer de lui. |
Same sound, different letters: quittée vs quitter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. quittée (CVVCCVV) and quitter (CVVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - quittée / quitter
This is the hard kind. quittée and quitter are pronounced identically (\ki.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25887, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
quittée is recorded at frequency rank #24,349, classified as averb, pronounced \ki.te\. quitter is at rank #1,538, tagged as averb, pronounced \ki.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 25887, this pair ranks #338,313 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of quittée vs quitter
Shared letters: eiqtu. Private to "quittée": é. Private to "quitter": r.
"quittée" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV · "quitter" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- quitter ← qiutter · qquitter · quiter · quitetr · quitterr · quittre · qutiter · uqitter
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "quittée" and "quitter" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "quittée" vs "quitter" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "quittée" / "quitter". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "quittée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "quitter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #338,313 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "quittée" and "quitter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "quite vs quittée". 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 #338,313 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.