visitavsvisitésConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#42,682
“visita” frequency rank
#22,733
“visités” frequency rank
65415
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visita visités
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de visiter. Participe passé masculin pluriel de visiter.

Where the eye mixes visita and visités

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

6 ch
visita
7 ch
visités

Look-alike desk: visita vs visités

A purely visual mix-up. visita (\vi.zi.ta\) 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65415, 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\. 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 65415, this pair ranks #72,438 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of visita vs visités

Shared letters: istv. Private to "visita": a. Private to "visités": é.

"visita" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "visités" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "visita" and "visités" 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 "visités"?
"visités" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,733 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.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "visita" 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 #72,438 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visita" and "visités" 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 #72,438 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