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

#4,075
“exprime” frequency rank
#17,706
“exprimées” frequency rank
21781
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exprime exprimées
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exprimer. Participe passé féminin pluriel de exprimer.

Where the eye mixes exprime and exprimées

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

7 ch
exprime
9 ch
exprimées

Visual trap between exprime and exprimées

A purely visual mix-up. exprime (\ɛk.spʁim\) and exprimées (\ɛk.spʁi.me\) 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 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21781, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exprime is recorded at frequency rank #4,075, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spʁim\. exprimées is at rank #17,706, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spʁi.me\.

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 21781, this pair ranks #361,444 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of exprime vs exprimées

Shared letters: eimprx. Private to "exprime": -. Private to "exprimées": .

"exprime" · 7 letters · shape VCCCVCV  ·  "exprimées" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exprimeepxrime · expirme · expprime · expriem · exprimme · exprmie · exprrime · exrpime

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "exprime" and "exprimées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ɛk.spʁim\ versus \ɛk.spʁi.me\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "exprime" or "exprimées" show up more?
"exprime" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,075 in our French list, against #17,706 for "exprimées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "exprime" and "exprimées" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "exprime" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exprimées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #361,444 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exprime" and "exprimées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exprimées vs exprimera". 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 #361,444 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