expansif
\ɛks.pɑ̃.sif\
The verdict
“expansif” is uncommon French (frequency #76,552 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,552
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la force de dilater, de s'expanser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expansif · expansif · French
expansif · rank #76,552 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,552
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exacerbées
Nearest frequency peer: exacerbées (-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 « expansif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ethnologiqu…
ethnologiques
23,453 corpus weight
- exacerbées
exacerbées
23,450 corpus weight
- expansif
expansif
23,449 corpus weight
- expedia
expedia
23,448 corpus weight
- experiment
experiment
23,447 corpus weight
- exploratoir…
exploratoires
23,446 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expansif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expansif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛks.pɑ̃.sif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expansif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expansif is uncommon French at frequency #76,552 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛks.pɑ̃.sif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
expansif doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 expansif, spelled E-X-P-A-N-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui a la force de dilater, de s'expanser.
- 2Qui ne peut être contenu, qui se manifeste largement au-dehors, en parlant des sentiments.
- 3Qui ne peut contenir ses sentiments.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expansif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La force expansive d’un gaz.
Une bonté expansive.
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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