supervisévssuperviséeConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#27,631
“supervisé” frequency rank
#45,898
“supervisée” frequency rank
73529
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature supervisé supervisée
Definition Personne qu’on supervise. Participe passé féminin singulier de superviser.

Same sound, different letters: supervisé vs supervisée

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

9 ch
supervisé
10 ch
supervisée

Same sound, different spelling - supervisé / supervisée

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: supervisé and supervisée carry the same recorded pronunciation, \sy.pɛʁ.vi.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 extra letter(s) - “supervisé” sits inside “supervisée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73529, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

supervisé is recorded at frequency rank #27,631, classified as anoun, pronounced \sy.pɛʁ.vi.ze\. supervisée is at rank #45,898, tagged as averb, pronounced \sy.pɛʁ.vi.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 73529, this pair ranks #40,154 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of supervisé vs supervisée

Shared letters: eiprsuvé. Private to "supervisé": -. Private to "supervisée": -.

"supervisé" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV  ·  "supervisée" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "supervisé" for "supervisée" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "supervisé" is a noun and "supervisée" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "supervisé" vs "supervisée" - which ranks higher?
"supervisé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,631 in our French list, against #45,898 for "supervisée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"supervisé" and "supervisée" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "supervisé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "supervisée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #40,154 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "supervisé" and "supervisée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "superpose vs supervisé". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #40,154 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