exploit
French, noun/ɛk.splwa/
exploit is spelled E-X-P-L-O-I-T (7 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written French, the 7,421st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exploit is a French masculine noun meaning “exploit, feat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de guerre éclatante”.
What does exploit mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineexploit, feat
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de guerre éclatante. 2. Acte qui n’est pas un acte de guerre, mais qui demande de la vaillance, de l’audace et qui aboutit à un résultat surprenant ou nouveau. 3. Acte que fait un huissier pour assigner, ajourner, saisir, etc. 4. Acte difficile à reproduire par le commun des mortels, et qui suscite l’admiration.
noun: 1. Élément de programme permettant d'exploiter une faille de sécurité informatique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of exploit
- exploits plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exploit?
- /ɛk.splwa/
- \ɛks.plwa\
- \ɛks.plwat\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to exploit
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exploit in French?
exploit appears 8.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).