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Which to use

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

#47,330
“exportée” frequency rank
#32,814
“exportés” frequency rank
80144
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exportée exportés
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de exporter. Participe passé masculin pluriel de exporter.

Same sound, different letters: exportée vs exportés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. exportée (VCCVCCVV) and exportés (VCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
exportée
8 ch
exportés

Ear matches; page differs - exportée and exportés

This is the hard kind. exportée and exportés 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 differ by a single letter - e in “exportée” becomes s in “exportés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80144, 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\. exportés is at rank #32,814, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spɔʁ.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 80144, this pair ranks #21,647 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of exportée vs exportés

Shared letters: eoprtxé. Private to "exportée": -. Private to "exportés": s.

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "exportée" and "exportés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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.
In ordinary French text, does "exportée" or "exportés" show up more?
"exportés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,814 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

"exportée" and "exportés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "exportée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exportés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #21,647 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exportée" and "exportés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exportée vs exportées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #21,647 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