expriméesvsexprimerConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#17,706
“exprimées” frequency rank
#2,423
“exprimer” frequency rank
20129
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exprimées exprimer
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel de exprimer. Faire sortir le suc, le jus d’une herbe, d’un fruit, etc., en les pressant.

Same sound, different letters: exprimées vs exprimer

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

9 ch
exprimées
8 ch
exprimer

Same sound, different spelling - exprimées / exprimer

This is the hard kind. exprimées and exprimer are pronounced identically (\ɛk.spʁi.me\) 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 20129, 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\. exprimer is at rank #2,423, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛks.pʁi.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 20129, this pair ranks #369,813 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of exprimées vs exprimer

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

"exprimées" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC  ·  "exprimer" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exprimerepxrimer · expirmer · expprimer · expriemr · exprimerr · exprimmer · exprimre · exprmier

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "exprimées" and "exprimer" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛk.spʁi.me\), 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 "exprimées" or "exprimer" show up more?
"exprimer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,423 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "exprimées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "exprimer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #369,813 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exprimées" and "exprimer" 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 #369,813 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