Which to use
“supervisée” and “superviser” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #45,898
- “supervisée” frequency rank
- #22,711
- “superviser” frequency rank
- 68609
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | supervisée | superviser |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de superviser. | Effectuer un contrôle sur l’activité d’une ou de plusieurs personnes. |
Same sound, different letters: supervisée vs superviser
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Homophone desk: supervisée vs superviser
This is the hard kind. supervisée and superviser are pronounced identically (\sy.pɛʁ.vi.ze\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68609, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
supervisée is recorded at frequency rank #45,898, classified as averb, pronounced \sy.pɛʁ.vi.ze\. superviser is at rank #22,711, 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 68609, this pair ranks #58,453 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of supervisée vs superviser
Shared letters: eiprsuv. Private to "supervisée": é. Private to "superviser": -.
"supervisée" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVV · "superviser" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- superviser ← spuerviser · ssuperviser · sueprviser · superivser · superrviser · superviesr · superviserr · supervisre
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "supervisée" for "superviser" ever safe?
Frequency check: "supervisée" vs "superviser" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"supervisée" and "superviser" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "supervisée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "superviser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #58,453 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "supervisée" and "superviser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "supervisé vs supervisée". 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 #58,453 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.