stabilisévsstabiliséeTell them apart

Quick tell: stabilisé is a noun, stabilisée is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“stabilisé” is a noun and “stabilisée” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#26,192
“stabilisé” frequency rank
#33,904
“stabilisée” frequency rank
60096
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature stabilisé stabilisée
Definition Type de revêtement utilisé pour la confection de routes, de chemins ou d'allées composé d'un mélange de sable, d'argile et de chaux. Féminin singulier de stabilisé.

Same sound, different letters: stabilisé vs stabilisée

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. stabilisé runs 9 letters (CCVCVCVCV) against stabilisée's 10 (CCVCVCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
stabilisé
10 ch
stabilisée

Same sound, different spelling - stabilisé / stabilisée

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: stabilisé and stabilisée carry the same recorded pronunciation, \sta.bi.li.ze\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “stabilisé” sits inside “stabilisée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60096, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

stabilisé is recorded at frequency rank #26,192, classified as anoun, pronounced \sta.bi.li.ze\. stabilisée is at rank #33,904, tagged as anadj, pronounced \sta.bi.li.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 60096, this pair ranks #99,480 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of stabilisé vs stabilisée

Shared letters: abilsté. Private to "stabilisé": -. Private to "stabilisée": e.

"stabilisé" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVCVCV  ·  "stabilisée" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCVCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "stabilisé" and "stabilisée" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "stabilisé" is a noun and "stabilisée" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "stabilisé" or "stabilisée" show up more?
"stabilisé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #26,192 in our French list, against #33,904 for "stabilisée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "stabilisé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "stabilisée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #99,480 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "stabilisé" and "stabilisée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "stabilisée vs stabiliser". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #99,480 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