Which to use
“exempt” and “exempts” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #25,647
- “exempt” frequency rank
- #39,792
- “exempts” frequency rank
- 65439
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | exempt | exempts |
|---|---|---|
| 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 exempt. |
Same sound, different letters: exempt vs exempts
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Homophone desk: exempt vs exempts
This is the hard kind. exempt and exempts are pronounced identically (\ɛɡ.zɑ̃\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “exempt” sits inside “exempts”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65439, 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\. exempts is at rank #39,792, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛɡ.zɑ̃\.
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 65439, this pair ranks #72,330 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of exempt vs exempts
Shared letters: emptx. Private to "exempt": -. Private to "exempts": s.
"exempt" · 6 letters · shape VCVCCC · "exempts" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "exempt" and "exempts" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "exempt" vs "exempts" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "exempt" / "exempts". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "exempt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "exempts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #72,330 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "exempt" and "exempts" 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 #72,330 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.