Which to use
“exprimées” and “exprimez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,706
- “exprimées” frequency rank
- #42,868
- “exprimez” frequency rank
- 60574
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | exprimées | exprimez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de exprimer. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de exprimer. |
Same sound, different letters: exprimées vs exprimez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - exprimées and exprimez
This is the hard kind. exprimées and exprimez 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 60574, 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\. exprimez is at rank #42,868, 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 60574, this pair ranks #96,905 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of exprimées vs exprimez
Shared letters: eimprx. Private to "exprimées": sé. Private to "exprimez": z.
"exprimées" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC · "exprimez" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- exprimez ← epxrimez · expirmez · expprimez · expriemz · exprimezz · exprimmez · exprimze · exprmiez
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "exprimées" for "exprimez" ever safe?
Which is more common, "exprimées" or "exprimez"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "exprimées" / "exprimez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "exprimées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "exprimez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #96,905 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "exprimées" and "exprimez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exprimera vs exprimez". 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 #96,905 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.