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.
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?
Frequency check: "exécutée" vs "exécutées" - which ranks higher?
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.