stabiliséevsstabiliserWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#33,904
“stabilisée” frequency rank
#15,513
“stabiliser” frequency rank
49417
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature stabilisée stabiliser
Definition Féminin singulier de stabilisé. Rendre stable.

Same sound, different letters: stabilisée vs stabiliser

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. stabilisée (CCVCVCVCVV) and stabiliser (CCVCVCVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

10 ch
stabilisée
10 ch
stabiliser

Ear matches; page differs - stabilisée and stabiliser

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: stabilisée and stabiliser carry the same recorded pronunciation, \sta.bi.li.ze\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49417, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

stabilisée is recorded at frequency rank #33,904, classified as anadj, 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 49417, this pair ranks #170,837 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of stabilisée vs stabiliser

Shared letters: abeilst. Private to "stabilisée": é. Private to "stabiliser": r.

"stabilisée" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCVCVV  ·  "stabiliser" · 10 letters · shape CCVCVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • stabiliser ← satbiliser · sstabiliser · stabbiliser · stabiilser · stabiliesr · stabiliserr · stabilisre · stabilisser

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "stabilisée" and "stabiliser" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "stabilisée" is an adjective and "stabiliser" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "stabilisée" or "stabiliser"?
"stabiliser" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,513 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "stabilisée" 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 #170,837 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "stabilisée" 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 #170,837 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