époxy
\e.pɔk.si\
The verdict
“époxy” is uncommon French (frequency #83,536 among 40,273 “É” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,536
- frequency rank, French
- 40,273
- “É” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Groupe chimique qui caractérise les époxydes, composé d'un atome d'oxygène formant un pont par dessus une liaison carbone-carbone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | époxy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pɔk.si\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “époxy” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
époxy is uncommon French at frequency #83,536 among 40,273 “É” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \e.pɔk.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
époxy has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is époxy, spelled É-P-O-X-Y.
Definition
- 1Groupe chimique qui caractérise les époxydes, composé d'un atome d'oxygène formant un pont par dessus une liaison carbone-carbone.
- 2Composé organique ayant des qualités adhésives et utilisé soit seul, comme colle, soit associé à d’autres matériaux comme la fibre de verre (composite verre/époxyde), pour réaliser du matériel sportif, des planches de surf, des coques de bateaux, des carters de protection, etc.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “époxy”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is É-P-O-X-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \e.pɔk.si\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.