Which to use
“excluait” and “excluant” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #45,028
- “excluait” frequency rank
- #19,013
- “excluant” frequency rank
- 64041
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excluait | excluant |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de exclure. | Participe présent de exclure. |
Where the eye mixes excluait and excluant
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. excluait (VCCCVVVC) and excluant (VCCCVVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Visual trap between excluait and excluant
A purely visual mix-up. excluait (\ɛks.kly.ɛ\) and excluant (\ɛks.kly.ɑ̃\) 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 a single letter - i in “excluait” becomes n in “excluant”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64041, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excluait is recorded at frequency rank #45,028, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛks.kly.ɛ\. excluant is at rank #19,013, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛks.kly.ɑ̃\.
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 64041, this pair ranks #78,978 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of excluait vs excluant
Shared letters: aceltux. Private to "excluait": i. Private to "excluant": n.
"excluait" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVVVC · "excluant" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "excluait" and "excluant" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "excluait" vs "excluant" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "excluait" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excluant" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #78,978 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excluait" and "excluant" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excluait vs excluent". 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 #78,978 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.