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Which to use

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

#30,023
“visitée” frequency rank
#35,327
“visitées” frequency rank
65350
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visitée visitées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de visiter. Participe passé féminin pluriel de visiter.

Same sound, different letters: visitée vs visitées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. visitée runs 7 letters (CVCVCVV) against visitées's 8 (CVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
visitée
8 ch
visitées

Homophone desk: visitée vs visitées

This is the hard kind. visitée and visitées are pronounced identically (\vi.zi.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “visitée” sits inside “visitées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65350, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

visitée is recorded at frequency rank #30,023, classified as averb, pronounced \vi.zi.te\. visitées is at rank #35,327, 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 65350, this pair ranks #72,795 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of visitée vs visitées

Shared letters: eistvé. Private to "visitée": -. Private to "visitées": -.

"visitée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "visitées" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "visitée" and "visitées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\vi.zi.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "visitée" vs "visitées" - which ranks higher?
"visitée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,023 in our French list, against #35,327 for "visitées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "visitée" / "visitées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "visitée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "visitées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #72,795 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visitée" and "visitées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "visit vs visitée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #72,795 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