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

#28,548
“expérimentée” frequency rank
#45,604
“expérimentées” frequency rank
74152
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature expérimentée expérimentées
Definition Féminin singulier de expérimenté. Féminin pluriel de expérimenté.

Same sound, different letters: expérimentée vs expérimentées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters. expérimentée runs 12 letters (VCCVCVCVCCVV) against expérimentées's 13 (VCCVCVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch
expérimentée
13 ch
expérimentées

Homophone desk: expérimentée vs expérimentées

This is the hard kind. expérimentée and expérimentées are pronounced identically (\ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.te\) 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) - “expérimentée” sits inside “expérimentées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74152, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

expérimentée is recorded at frequency rank #28,548, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.te\. expérimentées is at rank #45,604, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.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 74152, this pair ranks #38,082 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of expérimentée vs expérimentées

Shared letters: eimnprtxé. Private to "expérimentée": -. Private to "expérimentées": s.

"expérimentée" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCVCVCCVV  ·  "expérimentées" · 13 letters · shape VCCVCVCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "expérimentée" and "expérimentées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛk.spe.ʁi.mɑ̃.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "expérimentée" vs "expérimentées" - which ranks higher?
"expérimentée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,548 in our French list, against #45,604 for "expérimentées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"expérimentée" and "expérimentées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "expérimentée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "expérimentées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #38,082 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "expérimentée" and "expérimentées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "expérimentales vs expérimentées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #38,082 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