Which to use
“quitter” and “quittés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,538
- “quitter” frequency rank
- #24,733
- “quittés” frequency rank
- 26271
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | quitter | quittés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Laisser quelqu’un quelque part ; se séparer de lui. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de quitter. |
Same sound, different letters: quitter vs quittés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. quitter and quittés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - quitter and quittés
This is the hard kind. quitter and quittés 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 26271, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
quitter is recorded at frequency rank #1,538, classified as averb, pronounced \ki.te\. quittés is at rank #24,733, 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 26271, this pair ranks #336,083 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of quitter vs quittés
Shared letters: iqtu. Private to "quitter": er. Private to "quittés": sé.
"quitter" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC · "quittés" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- quitter ← qiutter · qquitter · quiter · quitetr · quitterr · quittre · qutiter · uqitter
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
"quitter" and "quittés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "quitter" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "quittés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #336,083 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "quitter" and "quittés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "quite vs quittés". 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 #336,083 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.