Which to use
“exploitation” and “exploitations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,565
- “exploitation” frequency rank
- #10,155
- “exploitations” frequency rank
- 11720
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | exploitation | exploitations |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’exploiter, de faire valoir une chose, d'en tirer le profit du produit. | Pluriel de exploitation. |
Same sound, different letters: exploitation vs exploitations
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 12 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - exploitation and exploitations
This is the hard kind. exploitation and exploitations are pronounced identically (\ɛks.plwa.ta.sjɔ̃\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “exploitation” sits inside “exploitations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11720, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
exploitation is recorded at frequency rank #1,565, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛks.plwa.ta.sjɔ̃\. exploitations is at rank #10,155, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛks.plwa.ta.sjɔ̃\.
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 11720, this pair ranks #408,097 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of exploitation vs exploitations
Shared letters: aeilnoptx. Private to "exploitation": -. Private to "exploitations": s.
"exploitation" · 12 letters · shape VCCCVVCVCVVC · "exploitations" · 13 letters · shape VCCCVVCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- exploitation ← epxloitation · exlpoitation · expliotation · explloitation · exploiattion · exploitaiton · exploitatino · exploitationn
- exploitations ← epxloitations · exlpoitations · expliotations · explloitations · exploiattions · exploitaitons · exploitatinos · exploitationns
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "exploitation" and "exploitations" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "exploitation" or "exploitations" show up more?
Useful next steps
"exploitation" and "exploitations" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "exploitation" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "exploitations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #408,097 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "exploitation" and "exploitations" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exploitations vs explorations". 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 #408,097 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.