Which to use
“utilisée” and “utiliser” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,974
- “utilisée” frequency rank
- #763
- “utiliser” frequency rank
- 3737
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | utilisée | utiliser |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de utiliser. | Tirer de l’utilité de ; tirer parti de. |
Same sound, different letters: utilisée vs utiliser
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Homophone desk: utilisée vs utiliser
This is the hard kind. utilisée and utiliser are pronounced identically (\y.ti.li.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 3737, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
utilisée is recorded at frequency rank #2,974, classified as averb, pronounced \y.ti.li.ze\. utiliser is at rank #763, tagged as averb, pronounced \y.ti.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 3737, this pair ranks #433,310 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of utilisée vs utiliser
Shared letters: eilstu. Private to "utilisée": é. Private to "utiliser": r.
"utilisée" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVV · "utiliser" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- utiliser ← tuiliser · uitliser · utiilser · utiliesr · utiliserr · utilisre · utilisser · utilliser
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "utilisée" and "utiliser" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "utilisée" or "utiliser" show up more?
Useful next steps
"utilisée" and "utiliser" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "utilisée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "utiliser" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #433,310 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "utilisée" and "utiliser" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "utilisée vs utiliserez". 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 #433,310 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.