excluentvsexclutConfusable pair

Which to use

“excluent” and “exclut” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#28,164
“excluent” frequency rank
#10,153
“exclut” frequency rank
38317
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature excluent exclut
Definition Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de exclure. Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de exclure.

Same sound, different letters: excluent vs exclut

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. excluent runs 8 letters (VCCCVVCC) against exclut's 6 (VCCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
excluent
6 ch
exclut

Homophone desk: excluent vs exclut

This is the hard kind. excluent and exclut are pronounced identically (\ɛks.kly\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38317, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

excluent is recorded at frequency rank #28,164, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛks.kly\. exclut is at rank #10,153, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛks.kly\.

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 38317, this pair ranks #256,115 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of excluent vs exclut

Shared letters: celtux. Private to "excluent": n. Private to "exclut": -.

"excluent" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVVCC  ·  "exclut" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • excluent ← ecxluent · exccluent · excleunt · exclluent · excluennt · excluentt · excluetn · exclunet
  • exclut ← ecxlut · excclut · excllut · excltu · exclutt · excult · exlcut · exxclut

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "excluent" and "exclut" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛks.kly\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "excluent" vs "exclut" - which ranks higher?
"exclut" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,153 in our French list, against #28,164 for "excluent". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "excluent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exclut" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #256,115 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "excluent" and "exclut" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excluent vs excusent". 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 #256,115 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