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Which to use

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

#17,708
“exécutée” frequency rank
#23,209
“exécutées” frequency rank
40917
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exécutée exécutées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de exécuter. Participe passé féminin pluriel de exécuter.

Same sound, different letters: exécutée vs exécutées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. exécutée runs 8 letters (VCVCVCVV) against exécutées's 9 (VCVCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
exécutée
9 ch
exécutées

Homophone desk: exécutée vs exécutées

This is the hard kind. exécutée and exécutées are pronounced identically (\ɛɡ.ze.ky.te\) 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 1 extra letter(s) - “exécutée” sits inside “exécutées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40917, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exécutée is recorded at frequency rank #17,708, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛɡ.ze.ky.te\. exécutées is at rank #23,209, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛɡ.ze.ky.te\.

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 40917, this pair ranks #236,945 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of exécutée vs exécutées

Shared letters: cetuxé. Private to "exécutée": -. Private to "exécutées": s.

"exécutée" · 8 letters · shape VCVCVCVV  ·  "exécutées" · 9 letters · shape VCVCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "exécutée" and "exécutées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛɡ.ze.ky.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "exécutée" vs "exécutées" - which ranks higher?
"exécutée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,708 in our French list, against #23,209 for "exécutées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"exécutée" and "exécutées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "exécutée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exécutées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #236,945 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exécutée" and "exécutées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exécutées vs exécuteur". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #236,945 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