experience
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "experience", 10-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "experience" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "experience" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
experience is aEnglishnoun. It means: The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintanc... Pronounced /ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪəns/. It ranks #541 in English word frequency. Often confused with experienced and experiences.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | experience |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪəns/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for experience is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪəns/. Corpus data places it at rank #541 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for experience, with forms such as "epxerience", "exeprience", and "expeirence". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "experienced", "experiences", "expediency", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English experience, from Old French, from Latin experientia (“a trial, proof, experiment, experimental knowledge, experience”), from experiens, present participle of experiri (“to try, put to the test, undertake, undergo”), from ex (“out”) + per… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is experience, spelled E-X-P-E-R-I-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
- 2An activity one has performed.
- 3A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
- 4The knowledge thus gathered.
- 5A business offering in which a major focus is the way that the customer interacts with the business throughout the transaction, as opposed to only its outcome (the product or service).
- 6Synonym of experience points
- 7Trial; a test or experiment.
Etymology
From Middle English experience, from Old French, from Latin experientia (“a trial, proof, experiment, experimental knowledge, experience”), from experiens, present participle of experiri (“to try, put to the test, undertake, undergo”), from ex (“out”) + peritus (“experienced, expert”), past participle of *periri (“to go through”); see expert and peril. Displaced native Old English āfandung (“experience”) and āfandian (“to experience”).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epxerience,exeprience,expeirence,expereince,experiance,experiecne,experiencce,experienec,experiennce,experinece,experrience,expperience,expreience,exxperience,xeperience
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for experience
Misspelling Variants of "experience"
Frequency rank: #541 in English
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