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.
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": eé.
"visit" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "visitée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- visit ← ivsit · viist · visitt · vissit · visti · vsiit · vvisit
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "visit" for "visitée" ever safe?
Which is more common, "visit" or "visitée"?
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.