expé
\ɛk.spe\
The verdict
“expé” is uncommon French (frequency #85,711 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,711
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expédition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expe · expé · French
expé · rank #85,711 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,711
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exposons
Nearest frequency peer: exposons (-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 « expé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- estimateur
estimateur
14,294 corpus weight
- excusa
excusa
14,292 corpus weight
- exposons
exposons
14,291 corpus weight
- expé
expé
14,290 corpus weight
- F2P
F2P
14,289 corpus weight
- fak
fak
14,287 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.spe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,711 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expé is uncommon French at frequency #85,711 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛk.spe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Expédition.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for expé, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 expé, spelled E-X-P-É.
Definition
- 1Expédition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how expé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’était pas une expé au sens classique du terme, c’était autre chose que je n’arrive pas encore à bien définir.
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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