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

#37,327
“exploitable” frequency rank
#36,835
“exploitables” frequency rank
74162
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exploitable exploitables
Definition Qui peut être cultivé, exploité avec avantage. Pluriel d’exploitable.

Same sound, different letters: exploitable vs exploitables

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. exploitable runs 11 letters (VCCCVVCVCCV) against exploitables's 12 (VCCCVVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
exploitable
12 ch
exploitables

Ear matches; page differs - exploitable and exploitables

This is the hard kind. exploitable and exploitables are pronounced identically (\ɛks.plwa.tabl\) 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) - “exploitable” sits inside “exploitables”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74162, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exploitable is recorded at frequency rank #37,327, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛks.plwa.tabl\. exploitables is at rank #36,835, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛks.plwa.tabl\.

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 74162, this pair ranks #38,042 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of exploitable vs exploitables

Shared letters: abeiloptx. Private to "exploitable": -. Private to "exploitables": s.

"exploitable" · 11 letters · shape VCCCVVCVCCV  ·  "exploitables" · 12 letters · shape VCCCVVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exploitable ← epxloitable · exlpoitable · expliotable · explloitable · exploiatble · exploitabble · exploitabel · exploitablle
  • exploitables ← epxloitables · exlpoitables · expliotables · explloitables · exploiatbles · exploitabbles · exploitabels · exploitabless

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "exploitable" and "exploitables" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛks.plwa.tabl\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "exploitable" vs "exploitables" - which ranks higher?
"exploitables" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,835 in our French list, against #37,327 for "exploitable". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "exploitable" / "exploitables". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "exploitable" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exploitables" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #38,042 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • 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 #38,042 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