évitervsExeterTell them apart

Quick tell: éviter is a verb, Exeter is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“éviter” is a verb and “Exeter” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#862
“éviter” frequency rank
#45,600
“Exeter” frequency rank
46462
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature éviter Exeter
Definition Échapper, se soustraire à quelque chose de nuisible, de désagréable. District, ville et cité d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Devon, duquel elle est le chef-lieu.

Letter map: éviter vs Exeter

Shared letters muted; letters that set éviter and Exeter apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

6 ch
éviter
6 ch
Exeter

Role in the sentence - éviter and Exeter

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: éviter is averb and Exeteraname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46462, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

éviter is recorded at frequency rank #862, classified as averb, pronounced \e.vi.te\. Exeter is at rank #45,600, tagged as aname.

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 46462, this pair ranks #194,749 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of éviter vs Exeter

Shared letters: ert. Private to "éviter": ivé. Private to "Exeter": x.

"éviter" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC  ·  "Exeter" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Exetereexter · exeetr · exeterr · exetre · exetter · exteer · exxeter · xeeter

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "éviter" for "Exeter" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "éviter" is a verb and "Exeter" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "éviter" vs "Exeter" - which ranks higher?
"éviter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #862 in our French list, against #45,600 for "Exeter". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "éviter" and "Exeter". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "éviter" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Exeter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #194,749 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "éviter" and "Exeter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Easter vs Exeter". 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 #194,749 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