Which to use
“visais” and “visait” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #43,207
- “visais” frequency rank
- #14,174
- “visait” frequency rank
- 57381
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | visais | visait |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de viser. | Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de viser. |
Same sound, different letters: visais vs visait
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. visais and visait follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - visais and visait
This is the hard kind. visais and visait are pronounced identically (\vi.zɛ\) 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 differ by a single letter - s in “visais” becomes t in “visait”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57381, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
visais is recorded at frequency rank #43,207, classified as averb, pronounced \vi.zɛ\. visait is at rank #14,174, tagged as averb, pronounced \vi.zɛ\.
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 57381, this pair ranks #115,377 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of visais vs visait
Shared letters: aisv. Private to "visais": -. Private to "visait": t.
"visais" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC · "visait" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "visais" and "visait" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "visais" or "visait" show up more?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "visais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "visait" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #115,377 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "visais" and "visait" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "visais vs vivrais". 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 #115,377 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.