visitvsvisitéeWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

“visit” and “visitée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#43,724
“visit” frequency rank
#30,023
“visitée” frequency rank
73747
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visit visitée
Definition Rendre visite (à un particulier). Participe passé féminin singulier de visiter.

Where the eye mixes visit and visitée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

5 ch
visit
7 ch
visitée

Visual trap between visit and visitée

A purely visual mix-up. visit (\ˈvɪz.ɪt\) and visitée (\vi.zi.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “visit” sits inside “visitée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73747, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

visit is recorded at frequency rank #43,724, classified as averb, pronounced \ˈvɪz.ɪt\. visitée is at rank #30,023, 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 73747, this pair ranks #39,425 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of visit vs visitée

Shared letters: istv. Private to "visit": -. Private to "visitée": .

"visit" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "visitée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • visitivsit · viist · visitt · vissit · visti · vsiit · vvisit

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "visit" for "visitée" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ˈvɪz.ɪt\ versus \vi.zi.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "visit" or "visitée"?
"visitée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,023 in our French list, against #43,724 for "visit". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "visit" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "visitée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #39,425 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visit" and "visitée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "visez vs visit". 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 #39,425 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