exploitéevsexploiterConfusable pair

Quick tell: exploitée is a noun, exploiter is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“exploitée” is a noun and “exploiter” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#19,283
“exploitée” frequency rank
#5,980
“exploiter” frequency rank
25263
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exploitée exploiter
Definition Prolétaire soumise à l’exploitation de sa force de travail par les exploiteurs. Faire valoir une chose, en tirer le profit du produit.

Same sound, different letters: exploitée vs exploiter

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

9 ch
exploitée
9 ch
exploiter

Homophone desk: exploitée vs exploiter

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: exploitée and exploiter carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ɛks.plwa.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25263, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exploitée is recorded at frequency rank #19,283, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛks.plwa.te\. exploiter is at rank #5,980, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛks.plwa.te\.

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 25263, this pair ranks #341,855 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of exploitée vs exploiter

Shared letters: eiloptx. Private to "exploitée": é. Private to "exploiter": r.

"exploitée" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVVCVV  ·  "exploiter" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exploiterepxloiter · exlpoiter · explioter · explloiter · exploietr · exploiterr · exploitre · exploitter

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "exploitée" and "exploiter" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "exploitée" is a noun and "exploiter" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "exploitée" or "exploiter" show up more?
"exploiter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,980 in our French list, against #19,283 for "exploitée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "exploitée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exploiter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #341,855 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exploitée" and "exploiter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exploitée vs exportée". 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 #341,855 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