exp
The verdict
“exp” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,852) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,852
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fonction exponentielle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exp · exp · French
exp · rank #22,852 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,852
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH estimées
Nearest frequency peer: estimées (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « exp »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- era
era
77,152 corpus weight
- escargots
escargots
77,151 corpus weight
- estimées
estimées
77,150 corpus weight
- exp
exp
77,149 corpus weight
- Fabio
Fabio
77,148 corpus weight
- facilitant
facilitant
77,147 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « exp » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | exp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « exp »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for exp is neighbouring look-alikes ("ez", "eye", …), not just typos; it is asymbol. Frequency #22,852 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Fonction exponentielle.".
exp has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ez", "eye", "ext", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is exp, spelled E-X-P.
Definition
- 1Fonction exponentielle.
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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