expérience
[ɛks.pe.ʀjɑ̃ːs]
The verdict
“expérience” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Erfahrung
Corpus desk
Index DE-experience · expérience · German
expérience · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expérience |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛks.pe.ʀjɑ̃ːs] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “expérience” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
expérience is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɛks.pe.ʀjɑ̃ːs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for expérience in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is expérience, spelled E-X-P-É-R-I-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1die Erfahrung
- 2das Experiment, der Versuch
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