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Which to use

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

#21,009
“exporte” frequency rank
#39,290
“exportent” frequency rank
60299
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exporte exportent
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exporter. Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe exporter.

Same sound, different letters: exporte vs exportent

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.

7 ch
exporte
9 ch
exportent

Same sound, different spelling - exporte / exportent

This is the hard kind. exporte and exportent are pronounced identically (\ɛk.spɔʁt\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “exporte” sits inside “exportent”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60299, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exporte is recorded at frequency rank #21,009, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spɔʁt\. exportent is at rank #39,290, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spɔʁt\.

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 60299, this pair ranks #98,352 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of exporte vs exportent

Shared letters: eoprtx. Private to "exporte": -. Private to "exportent": n.

"exporte" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV  ·  "exportent" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exporteepxorte · exoprte · exporet · exporrte · exportte · expotre · expporte · exprote
  • exportentepxortent · exoprtent · exporetnt · exporrtent · exportennt · exportentt · exportetn · exportnet

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "exporte" and "exportent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛk.spɔʁt\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "exporte" vs "exportent" - which ranks higher?
"exporte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,009 in our French list, against #39,290 for "exportent". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "exporte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exportent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #98,352 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exporte" and "exportent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exportées vs exportent". 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 #98,352 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