sponsoriséevssponsorisésWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: sponsorisée is a adjective, sponsorisés is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“sponsorisée” is an adjective and “sponsorisés” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#47,617
“sponsorisée” frequency rank
#39,051
“sponsorisés” frequency rank
86668
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature sponsorisée sponsorisés
Definition Féminin singulier de sponsorisé. Participe passé masculin pluriel de sponsoriser.

Same sound, different letters: sponsorisée vs sponsorisés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. sponsorisée (CCVCCVCVCVV) and sponsorisés (CCVCCVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

11 ch
sponsorisée
11 ch
sponsorisés

Same sound, different spelling - sponsorisée / sponsorisés

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: sponsorisée and sponsorisés carry the same recorded pronunciation, \spɔn.sɔ.ʁi.ze\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by a single letter - e in “sponsorisée” becomes s in “sponsorisés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 86668, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

sponsorisée is recorded at frequency rank #47,617, classified as anadj, pronounced \spɔn.sɔ.ʁi.ze\. sponsorisés is at rank #39,051, tagged as averb, pronounced \spɔn.sɔ.ʁi.ze\.

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 86668, this pair ranks #9,371 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of sponsorisée vs sponsorisés

Shared letters: inoprsé. Private to "sponsorisée": e. Private to "sponsorisés": -.

"sponsorisée" · 11 letters · shape CCVCCVCVCVV  ·  "sponsorisés" · 11 letters · shape CCVCCVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "sponsorisée" for "sponsorisés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "sponsorisée" is an adjective and "sponsorisés" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "sponsorisée" vs "sponsorisés" - which ranks higher?
"sponsorisés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,051 in our French list, against #47,617 for "sponsorisée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "sponsorisée" / "sponsorisés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "sponsorisée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "sponsorisés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #9,371 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "sponsorisée" and "sponsorisés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "sponsorisé vs sponsorisée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #9,371 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