visitvsvisitésWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#43,724
“visit” frequency rank
#22,733
“visités” frequency rank
66457
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visit visités
Definition Rendre visite (à un particulier). Participe passé masculin pluriel de visiter.

Where the eye mixes visit and visités

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. visit runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against visités's 7 (CVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
visit
7 ch
visités

Visual trap between visit and visités

A purely visual mix-up. visit (\ˈvɪz.ɪt\) and visités (\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 “visités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66457, 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\. visités is at rank #22,733, 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 66457, this pair ranks #67,739 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of visit vs visités

Shared letters: istv. Private to "visit": -. Private to "visités": é.

"visit" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "visités" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • visit ← ivsit · viist · visitt · vissit · visti · vsiit · vvisit

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "visit" and "visités" be used interchangeably?
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.
Frequency check: "visit" vs "visités" - which ranks higher?
"visités" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,733 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

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  • Full dictionary entry for "visit" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "visités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #67,739 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visit" and "visités" 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 #67,739 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