expertesvsexportéesConfusable pair

Quick tell: expertes is a adjective, exportées is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“expertes” is an adjective and “exportées” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#48,512
“expertes” frequency rank
#48,514
“exportées” frequency rank
97026
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature expertes exportées
Definition Féminin pluriel de expert. Participe passé féminin pluriel de exporter.

Where the eye mixes expertes and exportées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.

8 ch
expertes
9 ch
exportées

Look-alike desk: expertes vs exportées

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: expertes is \ɛks.pɛʁt\ while exportées is \ɛk.spɔʁ.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 97026, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

expertes is recorded at frequency rank #48,512, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛks.pɛʁt\. exportées is at rank #48,514, 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 97026, this pair ranks #475 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of expertes vs exportées

Shared letters: eprstx. Private to "expertes": -. Private to "exportées": .

"expertes" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC  ·  "exportées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • expertesepxertes · exeprtes · experets · experrtes · expertess · expertse · experttes · expetres

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "expertes" and "exportées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "expertes" is an adjective and "exportées" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "expertes" or "exportées"?
"expertes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #48,512 in our French list, against #48,514 for "exportées". 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 "expertes" and "exportées" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "expertes" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exportées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #475 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "expertes" and "exportées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exportée vs exportées". 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 #475 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