Which to use
“quittés” and “quittez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,733
- “quittés” frequency rank
- #21,743
- “quittez” frequency rank
- 46476
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | quittés | quittez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin pluriel de quitter. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de quitter. |
Same sound, different letters: quittés vs quittez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. quittés and quittez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Same sound, different spelling - quittés / quittez
This is the hard kind. quittés and quittez 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 46476, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
quittés is recorded at frequency rank #24,733, classified as averb, pronounced \ki.te\. quittez is at rank #21,743, 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 46476, this pair ranks #194,631 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of quittés vs quittez
Shared letters: iqtu. Private to "quittés": sé. Private to "quittez": ez.
"quittés" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC · "quittez" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- quittez ← qiuttez · qquittez · quitetz · quitez · quittezz · quittze · qutitez · uqittez
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "quittés" and "quittez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "quittés" or "quittez"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "quittés" / "quittez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "quittés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "quittez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #194,631 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "quittés" and "quittez" 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 #194,631 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.