expat
\ɛks.pat\
The verdict
“expat” is uncommon French (frequency #55,950 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,950
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expatrié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expat · expat · French
expat · rank #55,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,950
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exosquelette
Nearest frequency peer: exosquelette (-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 « expat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- excroissance
excroissance
44,053 corpus weight
- exosquelette
exosquelette
44,052 corpus weight
- expat
expat
44,051 corpus weight
- explosa
explosa
44,050 corpus weight
- explosée
explosée
44,049 corpus weight
- expéditif
expéditif
44,048 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.pat\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expat is uncommon French at frequency #55,950 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛks.pat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Expatrié.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for expat in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is expat, spelled E-X-P-A-T.
Definition
- 1Expatrié.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how expat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les expats utilisent l’anglais (96,7 pc) et le français (65,9 pc) à Bruxelles et en périphérie dans leurs relations avec leurs amis ou voisins.
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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