expliquées vs expliquer, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#33,254
“expliquées” frequency rank: #1,112
“expliquer” frequency rank: 34366
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	expliquées	expliquer
Definition	Participe passé féminin pluriel de expliquer.	Rendre clair ; faire comprendre.

Same sound, different letters: expliquées vs expliquer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

10 ch

expliquées

9 ch

expliquer

Homophone desk: expliquées vs expliquer

This is the hard kind. expliquées and expliquer 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34366, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

expliquées is recorded at frequency rank #33,254, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spli.ke\. expliquer is at rank #1,112, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛks.pli.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 34366, this pair ranks #284,341 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of expliquées vs expliquer

Shared letters: eilpqux. Private to "expliquées": sé. Private to "expliquer": r.

"expliquées" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCVVVC · "expliquer" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

expliquer ← epxliquer · exlpiquer · expilquer · expliqeur · expliqquer · expliquerr · expliqure · expliuqer

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "expliquées" for "expliquer" ever safe?

No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛk.spli.ke\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Frequency check: "expliquées" vs "expliquer" - which ranks higher?

"expliquer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,112 in our French list, against #33,254 for "expliquées". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

Full dictionary entry for "expliquées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "expliquer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #284,341 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"expliquées" and "expliquer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "expliquais 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 #284,341 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.