exhale
\ɛɡ.zal\
The verdict
“exhale” is uncommon French (frequency #55,271 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,271
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exhaler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exhale · exhale · French
exhale · rank #55,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,271
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exaspérant
Nearest frequency peer: exaspérant (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « exhale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- eurosceptiq…
eurosceptiques
44,733 corpus weight
- Exarchopoul…
Exarchopoulos
44,732 corpus weight
- exaspérant
exaspérant
44,731 corpus weight
- exhale
exhale
44,730 corpus weight
- existential…
existentialisme
44,729 corpus weight
- expressivité
expressivité
44,728 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exhale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exhale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exhale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exhale is uncommon French at frequency #55,271 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛɡ.zal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for exhale in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is exhale, spelled E-X-H-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exhaler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exhaler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de exhaler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de exhaler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de exhaler.
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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