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Which to use

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

#48,514
“exportées” frequency rank
#14,473
“exporter” frequency rank
62987
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Same sound, different letters: exportées vs exporter

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

9 ch
exportées
8 ch
exporter

Homophone desk: exportées vs exporter

This is the hard kind. exportées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62987, 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\. 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 62987, this pair ranks #84,225 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of exportées vs exporter

Shared letters: eoprtx. Private to "exportées": . Private to "exporter": -.

"exportées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC  ·  "exporter" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "exportées" and "exporter" 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.
Frequency check: "exportées" vs "exporter" - which ranks higher?
"exporter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,473 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.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "exportées" 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 #84,225 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exportées" and "exporter" 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 #84,225 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