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export

/ˈɛks.pɔɹt/adjective, noun, verb

export is spelled E-X-P-O-R-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,752nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, export means “Of or relating to exportation or exports” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in export?

Letters6: E-X-P-O-R-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing17 times per million words; the 4,752nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is export?

Export appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,752nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce export?

  • UK /ˈɛks.pɔːt/
  • US /ˈɛks.pɔɹt/
  • /ˈɛks.po(ː)ɹt/
  • UK /ɪksˈpɔːt/

Export has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-export.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-export2.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-export_(noun).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of export

  • exports plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • exporting participle, present
  • exported participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does export mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to exportation or exports.

noun

  1. 1

    Something that is exported.

    Oil is the main export of Saudi Arabia.

  2. 2

    The act of exporting.

    The export of fish is forbidden in this country.

verb

  1. 1

    To carry away.

  2. 2

    To sell (goods) to a foreign country.

    Japan exports electronic goods throughout the world.

  3. 3

    To cause to spread in another part of the world.

  4. 4

    To send (data) from one program to another.

  5. 5

    To put up (a child) for international adoption.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate export?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of export: expt.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Export in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Portugueseexportador (of or relating to exportation or exports), exportado (something that is exported), exportação (the act of exporting), tirar (to carry away), exportar (to sell (goods) to a foreign country)
Spanishexportacional, exportador (of or relating to exportation or exports), exportación (the act of exporting), exportar (to sell (goods) to a foreign country)
GermanExportgut, Exportware (something that is exported), Export, Ausfuhr (the act of exporting), exportieren, ausführen (to sell (goods) to a foreign country)
Frenchexportation (the act of exporting), exporter (to sell (goods) to a foreign country)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does export come from?

From Latin exportare.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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