expédition
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,330
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
expédition is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’expédier, de hâter. Pronounced \ɛk.spe.di.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,330 in French word frequency. Often confused with exposition and expéditions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expédition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.spe.di.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for expédition is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.spe.di.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,330 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for expédition, with forms such as "epxédition", "expdéition", and "expedition". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "exposition", "expéditions", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is expédition, spelled E-X-P-É-D-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action d’expédier, de hâter.
- 2Action d’expédier par la poste, par le chemin de fer, par avion, etc.
- 3Entreprise de guerre qui exige un trajet plus ou moins long.
- 4Tout voyage, surtout maritime, entrepris dans un dessein scientifique, commercial, industriel ou sportif.
- 5(Par métonymie) L’ensemble des membres participant à une expédition.
- 6Documents officiels propres au navire ou à sa cargaison.
- 7Copie littérale d’un acte, délivrée en bonne forme par l’officier public, dépositaire de l’original.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epxédition,expdéition,expedition,exppédition,expéddition,expédiiton,expéditino,expéditionn,expéditoin,expédittion,expédtiion,expéidtion,exxpédition,exépdition,xepédition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for expédition
Misspelling Variants of "expédition"
Frequency rank: #4,330 in French
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