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

#47,330
“exportée” frequency rank
#39,290
“exportent” frequency rank
86620
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exportée exportent
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de exporter. Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe exporter.

Where the eye mixes exportée and exportent

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.

8 ch
exportée
9 ch
exportent

Look-alike desk: exportée vs exportent

A purely visual mix-up. exportée (\ɛk.spɔʁ.te\) and exportent (\ɛk.spɔʁt\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 86620, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exportée is recorded at frequency rank #47,330, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spɔʁ.te\. 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 86620, this pair ranks #9,435 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of exportée vs exportent

Shared letters: eoprtx. Private to "exportée": é. Private to "exportent": n.

"exportée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV  ·  "exportent" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exportentepxortent · exoprtent · exporetnt · exporrtent · exportennt · exportentt · exportetn · exportnet

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "exportée" and "exportent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ɛk.spɔʁ.te\ versus \ɛk.spɔʁt\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "exportée" vs "exportent" - which ranks higher?
"exportent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,290 in our French list, against #47,330 for "exportée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "exportée" 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 #9,435 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exportée" and "exportent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exportée 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 #9,435 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