visitavsvistaConfusable pair

Quick tell: visita is a verb, vista is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“visita” is a verb and “vista” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#42,682
“visita” frequency rank
#18,906
“vista” frequency rank
61588
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visita vista
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de visiter. Clairvoyance de la stratégie du jeu et du sens du dribble.

Letter map: visita vs vista

Shared letters muted; letters that set visita and vista apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. visita runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against vista's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
visita
5 ch
vista

Role in the sentence - visita and vista

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: visita is averb and vistaanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61588, 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\. vista is at rank #18,906, tagged as anoun.

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 61588, this pair ranks #91,465 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of visita vs vista

Shared letters: aistv. Private to "visita": -. Private to "vista": -.

"visita" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "vista" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • visitaivsita · viista · visitta · vissita · vistia · vsiita · vvisita
  • vistaivsta · visat · vissta · vistta · vitsa · vsita · vvista

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "visita" and "vista" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "visita" is a verb and "vista" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "visita" or "vista" show up more?
"vista" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,906 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

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "visita" and "vista".

  • Full dictionary entry for "visita" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "vista" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #91,465 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visita" and "vista" 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 #91,465 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