visitentvsvisitésWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#23,064
“visitent” frequency rank
#22,733
“visités” frequency rank
45797
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visitent visités
Definition Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de visiter. Participe passé masculin pluriel de visiter.

Where the eye mixes visitent and visités

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

8 ch
visitent
7 ch
visités

Look-alike desk: visitent vs visités

A purely visual mix-up. visitent (\vi.zit\) 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 45797, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

visitent is recorded at frequency rank #23,064, classified as averb, pronounced \vi.zit\. 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 45797, this pair ranks #199,969 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of visitent vs visités

Shared letters: istv. Private to "visitent": en. Private to "visités": é.

"visitent" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCC  ·  "visités" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "visitent" for "visités" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\vi.zit\ versus \vi.zi.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "visitent" or "visités"?
"visités" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,733 in our French list, against #23,064 for "visitent". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "visitent" 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 #199,969 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visitent" and "visités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "visitait vs visitent". 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 #199,969 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