expérience

/\ɛks.peʁ.jɑ̃s\/ noun

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.

Key facts for expérience
PropertyValue
Headwordexpérience
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛks.peʁ.jɑ̃s\
Letters10
Frequency rank#722
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of expérience in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Connaissance des choses, acquise par l’usage du monde et de la vie.
  2. 2
    Épreuve instituée pour étudier la façon dont se passent les phénomènes naturels et rechercher les lois qui les régissent, en les reproduisant artificiellement.
  3. 3
    Essai pratiqué avec le matériel réduit d’un laboratoire dans un but scientifique ou industriel.
  4. 4
    Situation vécue considérée comme exceptionnelle ou marquante.
  5. 5
    Acquisition 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

This word in other languages

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"

epxérience10experience10exppérience11expréience10expéirence10expéreince10expériecne10expériencce11
Misspelling Variants of "expérience"

Frequency rank: #722 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "expérience"?
"expérience" is spelled E-X-P-É-R-I-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛks.peʁ.jɑ̃s\.
What does "expérience" mean?
As a noun, "expérience" means: Connaissance des choses, acquise par l’usage du monde et de la vie.
What words are commonly confused with "expérience"?
"expérience" is commonly confused with "expériences", "expérimenté". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "expérience"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "expérience" is \ɛks.peʁ.jɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "expérience" come from?
"expérience" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.