visitavsvisitéeWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#42,682
“visita” frequency rank
#30,023
“visitée” frequency rank
72705
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visita visitée
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de visiter. Participe passé féminin singulier de visiter.

Where the eye mixes visita and visitée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. visita runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against visitée's 7 (CVCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
visita
7 ch
visitée

Visual trap between visita and visitée

A purely visual mix-up. visita (\vi.zi.ta\) 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72705, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

visita is recorded at frequency rank #42,682, classified as averb, pronounced \vi.zi.ta\. 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 72705, this pair ranks #43,055 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of visita vs visitée

Shared letters: istv. Private to "visita": a. Private to "visitée": .

"visita" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "visitée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • visitaivsita · viista · visitta · vissita · vistia · vsiita · vvisita

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "visita" and "visitée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\vi.zi.ta\ versus \vi.zi.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "visita" or "visitée"?
"visitée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,023 in our French list, against #42,682 for "visita". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "visita" 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 #43,055 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visita" and "visitée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "visita vs visitait". 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 #43,055 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