espresso
\ɛs.pʁɛ.so\
The verdict
“espresso” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,778. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,778
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Café très corsé avec un fort arôme, obtenu en faisant passer rapidement de l’eau bouillante sous pression à travers du café finement moulu et torréfié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-espresso · espresso · French
espresso · rank #41,778 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,778
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espacement
Nearest frequency peer: espacement (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « espresso »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- espacement
espacement
58,224 corpus weight
- espresso
espresso
58,223 corpus weight
- esquisser
esquisser
58,222 corpus weight
- estomper
estomper
58,220 corpus weight
- everybody
everybody
58,219 corpus weight
- excitent
excitent
58,217 corpus weight
What this shows « espresso » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | espresso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.pʁɛ.so\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « espresso »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around espresso (IPA \ɛs.pʁɛ.so\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,778 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Café très corsé avec un fort arôme, obtenu en faisant passer rapidement de l’eau bouillante sous pression à travers du café finement moulu et torréfié.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for espresso, with forms such as "epsresso", "espersso", and "esppresso". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "express", "expresse", "expresso", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is espresso, spelled E-S-P-R-E-S-S-O.
Definition
- 1Café très corsé avec un fort arôme, obtenu en faisant passer rapidement de l’eau bouillante sous pression à travers du café finement moulu et torréfié.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how espresso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils commandèrent deux espressos que le patron posa devant eux. Ses mains, qui étaient énormes et velues, tenaient délicatement les petites tasses ; elles ressemblaient à des bêtes apprivoisées, chaudes et rassurantes.
Elle marcha dans la rue, pour le plaisir, s’offrit même la courte fantaisie d’un espresso pris en terrasse. Un rayon de soleil se faufilait jusqu'à sa table. Elle ferma les yeux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsresso
- espersso
- esppresso
- espreso
- espresos
- esprresso
- esprseso
- esrpesso
- esspresso
- sepresso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espresso - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).