Which to use
“restituée” and “restituer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #43,638
- “restituée” frequency rank
- #17,254
- “restituer” frequency rank
- 60892
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | restituée | restituer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de restituer. | Rendre ce qui a été pris ou ce qui est possédé indûment, injustement. |
Same sound, different letters: restituée vs restituer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. restituée (CVCCVCVVV) and restituer (CVCCVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - restituée / restituer
This is the hard kind. restituée and restituer are pronounced identically (\ʁɛs.ti.tɥe\) 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 60892, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
restituée is recorded at frequency rank #43,638, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɛs.ti.tɥe\. restituer is at rank #17,254, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁɛs.ti.tɥe\.
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 60892, this pair ranks #95,228 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of restituée vs restituer
Shared letters: eirstu. Private to "restituée": é. Private to "restituer": -.
"restituée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVV · "restituer" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- restituer ← erstituer · resittuer · resstituer · restiteur · restittuer · restituerr · restiture · restiuter
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "restituée" for "restituer" ever safe?
Frequency check: "restituée" vs "restituer" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"restituée" and "restituer" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "restituée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "restituer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #95,228 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "restituée" and "restituer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "restituée vs restitués". 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 #95,228 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.