Which to use
“exil” and “exilée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,503
- “exil” frequency rank
- #45,601
- “exilée” frequency rank
- 52104
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | exil | exilée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | État de celui que l’autorité force à vivre hors de sa patrie, ou qui s’y résout lui-même. | Femme exilée. |
Where the eye mixes exil and exilée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. exil runs 4 letters (VCVC) against exilée's 6 (VCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between exil and exilée
A purely visual mix-up. exil (\ɛɡ.zil\) and exilée (\ɛɡ.zi.le\) 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) - “exil” sits inside “exilée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52104, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
exil is recorded at frequency rank #6,503, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛɡ.zil\. exilée is at rank #45,601, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛɡ.zi.le\.
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 52104, this pair ranks #150,145 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of exil vs exilée
Shared letters: eilx. Private to "exil": -. Private to "exilée": é.
"exil" · 4 letters · shape VCVC · "exilée" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- exil ← eixl · exill · exli · exxil · xeil
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "exil" and "exilée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "exil" or "exilée" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "exil" and "exilée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "exil" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "exilée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #150,145 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "exil" and "exilée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exigez vs exilée". 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 #150,145 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.