quittéevsquitteraTell them apart

Which to use

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

#24,349
“quittée” frequency rank
#15,987
“quittera” frequency rank
40336
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature quittée quittera
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de quitter. Troisième personne du singulier du futur de quitter.

Where the eye mixes quittée and quittera

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. quittée runs 7 letters (CVVCCVV) against quittera's 8 (CVVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
quittée
8 ch
quittera

Visual trap between quittée and quittera

A purely visual mix-up. quittée (\ki.te\) and quittera (\ki.tə.ʁa\) 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 40336, 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\. quittera is at rank #15,987, tagged as averb, pronounced \ki.tə.ʁa\.

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 40336, this pair ranks #241,299 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of quittée vs quittera

Shared letters: eiqtu. Private to "quittée": é. Private to "quittera": ar.

"quittée" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVV  ·  "quittera" · 8 letters · shape CVVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • quittera ← qiuttera · qquittera · quitera · quitetra · quittear · quitterra · quittrea · qutitera

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "quittée" for "quittera" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ki.te\ versus \ki.tə.ʁa\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "quittée" or "quittera"?
"quittera" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,987 in our French list, against #24,349 for "quittée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "quittée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "quittera" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #241,299 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "quittée" and "quittera" 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 #241,299 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