Which to use
“expliquée” and “expliquez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #20,716
- “expliquée” frequency rank
- #11,217
- “expliquez” frequency rank
- 31933
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | expliquée | expliquez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de expliquer. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de expliquer. |
Same sound, different letters: expliquée vs expliquez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - expliquée and expliquez
This is the hard kind. expliquée and expliquez are pronounced identically (\ɛk.spli.ke\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31933, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
expliquée is recorded at frequency rank #20,716, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spli.ke\. expliquez is at rank #11,217, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spli.ke\.
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 31933, this pair ranks #300,648 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of expliquée vs expliquez
Shared letters: eilpqux. Private to "expliquée": é. Private to "expliquez": z.
"expliquée" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVV · "expliquez" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- expliquez ← epxliquez · exlpiquez · expilquez · expliqeuz · expliqquez · expliquezz · expliquze · expliuqez
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "expliquée" and "expliquez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "expliquée" vs "expliquez" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "expliquée" / "expliquez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "expliquée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "expliquez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #300,648 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "expliquée" and "expliquez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "expliquée vs expliquées". 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 #300,648 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.