expansive
\ɛks.pɑ̃.siv\
The verdict
“expansive” is uncommon French (frequency #78,410 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,410
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de expansif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expansive · expansive · French
expansive · rank #78,410 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,410
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exemptée
Nearest frequency peer: exemptée (-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 « expansive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- excrément
excrément
21,593 corpus weight
- exemptée
exemptée
21,592 corpus weight
- expansive
expansive
21,591 corpus weight
- exploiteur
exploiteur
21,590 corpus weight
- explorons
explorons
21,589 corpus weight
- exportait
exportait
21,588 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expansive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expansive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛks.pɑ̃.siv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expansive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expansive is uncommon French at frequency #78,410 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛks.pɑ̃.siv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de expansif.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for expansive, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 expansive, spelled E-X-P-A-N-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de expansif.
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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