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Which to use

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

#17,706
“exprimées” frequency rank
#10,001
“expriment” frequency rank
27707
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exprimées expriment
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel de exprimer. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de exprimer.

Where the eye mixes exprimées and expriment

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

9 ch
exprimées
9 ch
expriment

Visual trap between exprimées and expriment

A purely visual mix-up. exprimées (\ɛk.spʁi.me\) and expriment (\ɛk.spʁim\) 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 27707, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exprimées is recorded at frequency rank #17,706, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spʁi.me\. expriment is at rank #10,001, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spʁim\.

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 27707, this pair ranks #327,295 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of exprimées vs expriment

Shared letters: eimprx. Private to "exprimées": . Private to "expriment": nt.

"exprimées" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC  ·  "expriment" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exprimentepxriment · expirment · exppriment · expriemnt · exprimennt · exprimentt · exprimetn · exprimment

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "exprimées" and "expriment" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ɛk.spʁi.me\ versus \ɛk.spʁim\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "exprimées" vs "expriment" - which ranks higher?
"expriment" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,001 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.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "exprimées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "expriment" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #327,295 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exprimées" and "expriment" 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 #327,295 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