Which to use
“visées” and “viseur” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #13,293
- “visées” frequency rank
- #18,621
- “viseur” frequency rank
- 31914
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | visées | viseur |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de visée. | Partie d’une arme servant à viser. |
Where the eye mixes visées and viseur
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. visées and viseur follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: visées vs viseur
A purely visual mix-up. visées (\vi.ze\) and viseur (\vi.zœʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31914, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
visées is recorded at frequency rank #13,293, classified as anoun, pronounced \vi.ze\. viseur is at rank #18,621, tagged as anoun, pronounced \vi.zœʁ\.
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 31914, this pair ranks #300,759 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of visées vs viseur
Shared letters: eisv. Private to "visées": é. Private to "viseur": ru.
"visées" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC · "viseur" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- viseur ← ivseur · viesur · viseru · viseurr · visseur · visuer · vsieur · vviseur
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "visées" for "viseur" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "visées" or "viseur" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "visées" and "viseur" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "visées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "viseur" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #300,759 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "visées" and "viseur" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "vibreur vs viseur". 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 #300,759 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.