Which to use
“restituer” and “restitués” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,254
- “restituer” frequency rank
- #49,911
- “restitués” frequency rank
- 67165
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | restituer | restitués |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Rendre ce qui a été pris ou ce qui est possédé indûment, injustement. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de restituer. |
Same sound, different letters: restituer vs restitués
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. restituer and restitués follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - restituer and restitués
This is the hard kind. restituer and restitués 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 67165, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
restituer is recorded at frequency rank #17,254, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɛs.ti.tɥe\. restitués is at rank #49,911, 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 67165, this pair ranks #64,602 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of restituer vs restitués
Shared letters: eirstu. Private to "restituer": -. Private to "restitués": é.
"restituer" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC · "restitués" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- restituer ← erstituer · resittuer · resstituer · restiteur · restittuer · restituerr · restiture · restiuter
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "restituer" for "restitués" ever safe?
Which is more common, "restituer" or "restitués"?
What to do next
"restituer" and "restitués" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "restituer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "restitués" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #64,602 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "restituer" and "restitués" 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 #64,602 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.