expected
\ɪkˈspɛk.tɪd\
The verdict
“expected” is uncommon French (frequency #99,070 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,070
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé du verbe to expect.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expected · expected · French
expected · rank #99,070 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,070
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exhumée
Nearest frequency peer: exhumée (-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 « expected »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Exbrayat
Exbrayat
933 corpus weight
- exhumée
exhumée
932 corpus weight
- expected
expected
931 corpus weight
- expliquerez
expliquerez
930 corpus weight
- explorera
explorera
929 corpus weight
- expéditionn…
expéditionnaires
928 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expected » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expected |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɪkˈspɛk.tɪd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,070 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expected » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expected is uncommon French at frequency #99,070 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɪkˈspɛk.tɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for expected, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is expected, spelled E-X-P-E-C-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Participe passé du verbe to expect.
- 2Prétérit du verbe to expect.
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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