Which to use
“expliquent” and “expliques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,183
- “expliquent” frequency rank
- #20,441
- “expliques” frequency rank
- 27624
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | expliquent | expliques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de expliquer. | Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe expliquer. |
Same sound, different letters: expliquent vs expliques
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - expliquent and expliques
This is the hard kind. expliquent and expliques are pronounced identically (\ɛk.splik\) 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 27624, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
expliquent is recorded at frequency rank #7,183, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛk.splik\. expliques is at rank #20,441, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛks.plik\.
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 27624, this pair ranks #327,856 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of expliquent vs expliques
Shared letters: eilpqux. Private to "expliquent": nt. Private to "expliques": s.
"expliquent" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCVVCC · "expliques" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- expliquent ← epxliquent · exlpiquent · expilquent · expliqeunt · expliqquent · expliquennt · expliquentt · expliquetn
- expliques ← epxliques · exlpiques · expilques · expliqeus · expliqques · expliquess · expliquse · expliuqes
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "expliquent" for "expliques" ever safe?
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Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "expliquent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "expliques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #327,856 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "expliquent" and "expliques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "expliquais vs expliques". 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 #327,856 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.