stabilisévsstabiliserTell them apart

Quick tell: stabilisé is a noun, stabiliser is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#26,192
“stabilisé” frequency rank
#15,513
“stabiliser” frequency rank
41705
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature stabilisé stabiliser
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. Rendre stable.

Same sound, different letters: stabilisé vs stabiliser

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

9 ch
stabilisé
10 ch
stabiliser

Ear matches; page differs - stabilisé and stabiliser

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: stabilisé and stabiliser carry the same recorded pronunciation, \sta.bi.li.ze\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41705, 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\. stabiliser is at rank #15,513, tagged as averb, 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 41705, this pair ranks #231,118 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of stabilisé vs stabiliser

Shared letters: abilst. Private to "stabilisé": é. Private to "stabiliser": er.

"stabilisé" · 9 letters · shape CCVCVCVCV  ·  "stabiliser" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • stabilisersatbiliser · sstabiliser · stabbiliser · stabiilser · stabiliesr · stabiliserr · stabilisre · stabilisser

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "stabilisé" for "stabiliser" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "stabilisé" is a noun and "stabiliser" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "stabilisé" or "stabiliser" show up more?
"stabiliser" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,513 in our French list, against #26,192 for "stabilisé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "stabilisé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "stabiliser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #231,118 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "stabilisé" and "stabiliser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "stabilisé vs stabilisée". 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 #231,118 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