visitéevsvisitentWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#30,023
“visitée” frequency rank
#23,064
“visitent” frequency rank
53087
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visitée visitent
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de visiter. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de visiter.

Where the eye mixes visitée and visitent

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.

7 ch
visitée
8 ch
visitent

Look-alike desk: visitée vs visitent

A purely visual mix-up. visitée (\vi.zi.te\) and visitent (\vi.zit\) 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 53087, 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\. visitent is at rank #23,064, tagged as averb, pronounced \vi.zit\.

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 53087, this pair ranks #143,161 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of visitée vs visitent

Shared letters: eistv. Private to "visitée": é. Private to "visitent": n.

"visitée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "visitent" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • visitentivsitent · viistent · visietnt · visitennt · visitentt · visitetn · visitnet · visittent

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "visitée" and "visitent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\vi.zi.te\ versus \vi.zit\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "visitée" or "visitent" show up more?
"visitent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,064 in our French list, against #30,023 for "visitée". 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 "visitée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "visitent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #143,161 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visitée" and "visitent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "visit vs visitée". 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 #143,161 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