expérience
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#722
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
expérience is aFrenchnoun. It means: Connaissance des choses, acquise par l’usage du monde et de la vie. Pronounced \ɛks.peʁ.jɑ̃s\. It ranks #722 in French word frequency. Often confused with expériences and expérimenté.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expérience |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.peʁ.jɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for expérience is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛks.peʁ.jɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #722 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 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 expérience, with forms such as "epxérience", "experience", and "exppérience". 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, "expériences", "expérimenté", 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 expérience, spelled E-X-P-É-R-I-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Connaissance des choses, acquise par l’usage du monde et de la vie.
- 2Épreuve instituée pour étudier la façon dont se passent les phénomènes naturels et rechercher les lois qui les régissent, en les reproduisant artificiellement.
- 3Essai pratiqué avec le matériel réduit d’un laboratoire dans un but scientifique ou industriel.
- 4Situation vécue considérée comme exceptionnelle ou marquante.
- 5Acquisition de connaissances par l’épreuve des choses, soit au moyen des sens, soit au moyen de la conscience (par opposition à raison ou à raisonnement).
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epxérience,experience,exppérience,expréience,expéirence,expéreince,expériecne,expériencce,expérienec,expériennce,expérinece,expérrience,exxpérience,exéprience,xepérience
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for expérience
Misspelling Variants of "expérience"
Frequency rank: #722 in French
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Nearby French words
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