véritésvsvisitésWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#9,414
“vérités” frequency rank
#22,733
“visités” frequency rank
32147
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature vérités visités
Definition Pluriel de vérité. Participe passé masculin pluriel de visiter.

Where the eye mixes vérités and visités

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. vérités and visités follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
vérités
7 ch
visités

Why the eye confuses vérités with visités

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: vérités is \ve.ʁi.te\ while visités is \vi.zi.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32147, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

vérités is recorded at frequency rank #9,414, classified as anoun, pronounced \ve.ʁi.te\. visités is at rank #22,733, tagged as averb, pronounced \vi.zi.te\.

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 32147, this pair ranks #299,204 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of vérités vs visités

Shared letters: istvé. Private to "vérités": r. Private to "visités": -.

"vérités" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "visités" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "vérités" for "visités" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "vérités" is a noun and "visités" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "vérités" vs "visités" - which ranks higher?
"vérités" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,414 in our French list, against #22,733 for "visités". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "vérités" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "visités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #299,204 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "vérités" and "visités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "visit vs visités". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #299,204 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