exploitéesvsexploiterTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#18,480
“exploitées” frequency rank
#5,980
“exploiter” frequency rank
24460
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exploitées exploiter
Definition Féminin pluriel de exploité. Faire valoir une chose, en tirer le profit du produit.

Same sound, different letters: exploitées vs exploiter

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

10 ch
exploitées
9 ch
exploiter

Same sound, different spelling - exploitées / exploiter

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: exploitées and exploiter carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ɛks.plwa.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24460, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exploitées is recorded at frequency rank #18,480, classified as anadj, 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 24460, this pair ranks #346,511 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of exploitées vs exploiter

Shared letters: eiloptx. Private to "exploitées": . Private to "exploiter": r.

"exploitées" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVVCVVC  ·  "exploiter" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "exploitées" and "exploiter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "exploitées" is an adjective and "exploiter" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "exploitées" vs "exploiter" - which ranks higher?
"exploiter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,980 in our French list, against #18,480 for "exploitées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "exploitées" 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 #346,511 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exploitées" and "exploiter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exploitées vs exportées". 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 #346,511 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