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Which to use

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

#24,968
“exhorte” frequency rank
#32,814
“exportés” frequency rank
57782
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exhorte exportés
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exhorter. Participe passé masculin pluriel de exporter.

Where the eye mixes exhorte and exportés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.

7 ch
exhorte
8 ch
exportés

Visual trap between exhorte and exportés

A purely visual mix-up. exhorte (\ɛɡ.zɔʁt\) and exportés (\ɛk.spɔʁ.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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57782, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exhorte is recorded at frequency rank #24,968, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛɡ.zɔʁt\. exportés is at rank #32,814, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spɔʁ.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 57782, this pair ranks #112,996 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of exhorte vs exportés

Shared letters: eortx. Private to "exhorte": h. Private to "exportés": psé.

"exhorte" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV  ·  "exportés" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exhorteehxorte · exhhorte · exhoret · exhorrte · exhortte · exhotre · exhrote · exohrte

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "exhorte" for "exportés" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ɛɡ.zɔʁt\ versus \ɛk.spɔʁ.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "exhorte" or "exportés" show up more?
"exhorte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,968 in our French list, against #32,814 for "exportés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "exhorte" and "exportés" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "exhorte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exportés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #112,996 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exhorte" and "exportés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exportées vs exportés". 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 #112,996 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