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Which to use

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

#48,514
“exportées” frequency rank
#39,290
“exportent” frequency rank
87804
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Where the eye mixes exportées and exportent

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

9 ch
exportées
9 ch
exportent

Visual trap between exportées and exportent

A purely visual mix-up. exportées (\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 share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87804, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exportées is recorded at frequency rank #48,514, 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 87804, this pair ranks #7,791 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of exportées vs exportent

Shared letters: eoprtx. Private to "exportées": . Private to "exportent": n.

"exportées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC  ·  "exportent" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "exportées" for "exportent" ever safe?
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.
Which is more common, "exportées" or "exportent"?
"exportent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,290 in our French list, against #48,514 for "exportées". 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 "exportées" 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 #7,791 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exportées" and "exportent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "expertes 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 #7,791 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