Which to use
“exempt” and “exemptés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #25,647
- “exempt” frequency rank
- #35,936
- “exemptés” frequency rank
- 61583
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | exempt | exemptés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui par droit, par privilège, par nature, n’est pas sujet à quelque chose ; qui n’est pas assujetti à quelque chose. | Masculin pluriel de exempté. |
Where the eye mixes exempt and exemptés
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: exempt vs exemptés
A purely visual mix-up. exempt (\ɛɡ.zɑ̃\) and exemptés (\ɛɡ.zɑ̃.te\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “exempt” sits inside “exemptés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61583, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
exempt is recorded at frequency rank #25,647, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛɡ.zɑ̃\. exemptés is at rank #35,936, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛɡ.zɑ̃.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 61583, this pair ranks #91,487 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of exempt vs exemptés
Shared letters: emptx. Private to "exempt": -. Private to "exemptés": sé.
"exempt" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCC · "exemptés" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- exempt ← eexmpt · exemmpt · exemppt · exemptt · exemtp · exepmt · exmept · exxempt
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "exempt" and "exemptés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "exempt" or "exemptés" show up more?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "exempt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "exemptés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #91,487 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "exempt" and "exemptés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exemptés vs exempts". 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 #91,487 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.