visitésvsvisiteursConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#22,733
“visités” frequency rank
#3,506
“visiteurs” frequency rank
26239
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature visités visiteurs
Definition Participe passé masculin pluriel de visiter. Pluriel de visiteur.

Where the eye mixes visités and visiteurs

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. visités runs 7 letters (CVCVCVC) against visiteurs's 9 (CVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
visités
9 ch
visiteurs

Why the eye confuses visités with visiteurs

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: visités is \vi.zi.te\ while visiteurs is \vi.zi.tœʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26239, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

visités is recorded at frequency rank #22,733, classified as averb, pronounced \vi.zi.te\. visiteurs is at rank #3,506, tagged as anoun, pronounced \vi.zi.tœʁ\.

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 26239, this pair ranks #336,268 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of visités vs visiteurs

Shared letters: istv. Private to "visités": é. Private to "visiteurs": eru.

"visités" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "visiteurs" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • visiteurs ← ivsiteurs · viisteurs · visieturs · visiterus · visiteurrs · visiteurss · visiteusr · visitteurs

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "visités" for "visiteurs" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "visités" is a verb and "visiteurs" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "visités" or "visiteurs" show up more?
"visiteurs" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,506 in our French list, against #22,733 for "visités". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "visités" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "visiteurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #336,268 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "visités" and "visiteurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "visit vs visités". 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 #336,268 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