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

#47,330
“exportée” frequency rank
#14,473
“exporter” frequency rank
61803
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exportée exporter
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de exporter. Transporter hors d’un État des produits du sol ou de l’industrie.

Same sound, different letters: exportée vs exporter

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

8 ch
exportée
8 ch
exporter

Ear matches; page differs - exportée and exporter

This is the hard kind. exportée and exporter are pronounced identically (\ɛk.spɔʁ.te\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61803, 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\. exporter is at rank #14,473, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛks.pɔʁ.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 61803, this pair ranks #90,340 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of exportée vs exporter

Shared letters: eoprtx. Private to "exportée": é. Private to "exporter": -.

"exportée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV  ·  "exporter" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exporterepxorter · exoprter · exporetr · exporrter · exporterr · exportre · exportter · expotrer

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "exportée" and "exporter" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛk.spɔʁ.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "exportée" or "exporter"?
"exporter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,473 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "exportée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exporter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #90,340 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exportée" and "exporter" 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 #90,340 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