Which to use
“visais” is a verb and “visées” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #43,207
- “visais” frequency rank
- #13,293
- “visées” frequency rank
- 56500
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | visais | visées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de viser. | Pluriel de visée. |
Where the eye mixes visais and visées
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. visais and visées follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses visais with visées
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: visais is \vi.zɛ\ while visées is \vi.ze\. 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 (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56500, 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\. visées is at rank #13,293, tagged as anoun, pronounced \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 56500, this pair ranks #120,723 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of visais vs visées
Shared letters: isv. Private to "visais": a. Private to "visées": eé.
"visais" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC · "visées" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- visais ← ivsais · viasis · visaiss · visasi · visias · vissais · vsiais · vvisais
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "visais" and "visées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "visais" or "visées"?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "visais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "visées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #120,723 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "visais" and "visées" 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 #120,723 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.