exemple
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#336
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
exemple is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui peut servir de modèle, ce qui peut être imité. Pronounced \ɛɡ.zɑ̃pl\. It ranks #336 in French word frequency. Often confused with exempt and exempte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exemple |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zɑ̃pl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for exemple is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛɡ.zɑ̃pl\. Corpus data places it at rank #336 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for exemple, with forms such as "eexmple", "exemlpe", and "exemmple". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "exempt", "exempte", "exempts", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is exemple, spelled E-X-E-M-P-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce qui peut servir de modèle, ce qui peut être imité.
- 2Châtiment, peine infligée à quelqu’un et qui est un avertissement pour les autres.
- 3Chose qui est pareille à celle dont il s’agit et qui sert pour l’autoriser, pour la confirmer, ou seulement pour la faire bien connaître, pour en donner une idée plus exacte.
- 4Étude d’une situation sur laquelle s’appliquent des résultats plus généraux énoncés avant.
- 5Patron, modèle sur lequel l’écolier qui apprend à écrire forme ses caractères.
- 6Par exemple.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eexmple,exemlpe,exemmple,exempel,exemplle,exempple,exepmle,exmeple,exxemple,xeemple
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for exemple
Misspelling Variants of "exemple"
Frequency rank: #336 in French
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Nearby French words
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