exit vs éxito, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“exit” and “éxito” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#48,396
“exit” frequency rank: #731
“éxito” frequency rank: 49127
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	exit	éxito
Definition	Salida.	Logro o compensación satisfactoria de una tarea o actividad.

Where the eye mixes exit and éxito

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

4 ch

exit

5 ch

éxito

Look-alike desk: exit vs éxito

A purely visual mix-up. exit (/ˈɛɡ.zɪt/) and éxito ([ˈeksit̪o]) 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 49127, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exit is recorded at frequency rank #48,396, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈɛɡ.zɪt/. éxito is at rank #731, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈeksit̪o].

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 49127, this pair ranks #110,573 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of exit vs éxito

Shared letters: itx. Private to "exit": e. Private to "éxito": oé.

"exit" · 4 letters · shape VCVC · "éxito" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

exit ← eixt · exitt · exti · exxit · xeit

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "exit" for "éxito" ever safe?

No. They are said differently (/ˈɛɡ.zɪt/ versus [ˈeksit̪o]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.

Frequency check: "exit" vs "éxito" - which ranks higher?

"éxito" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #731 in our Spanish list, against #48,396 for "exit". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "exit" and "éxito" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

Full dictionary entry for "exit" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "éxito" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #110,573 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"exit" and "éxito" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "edi vs exit". 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 #110,573 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.