Which to use
“exilé” and “exilée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,950
- “exilé” frequency rank
- #45,601
- “exilée” frequency rank
- 63551
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | exilé | exilée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Personne qui quitte volontairement ou non son lieu de vie original. | Femme exilée. |
Same sound, different letters: exilé vs exilée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. exilé runs 5 letters (VCVCV) against exilée's 6 (VCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: exilé vs exilée
This is the hard kind. exilé and exilée are pronounced identically (\ɛɡ.zi.le\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “exilé” sits inside “exilée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63551, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
exilé is recorded at frequency rank #17,950, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛɡ.zi.le\. 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 63551, this pair ranks #81,423 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of exilé vs exilée
Shared letters: eilxé. Private to "exilé": -. Private to "exilée": -.
"exilé" · 5 letters · shape VCVCV · "exilée" · 6 letters · shape VCVCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "exilé" and "exilée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "exilé" or "exilée"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "exilé" / "exilée". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "exilé" 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 #81,423 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "exilé" and "exilée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exigez vs exilée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #81,423 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.