experiment
\ɪk.ˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt\
The verdict
“experiment” is uncommon French (frequency #76,554 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,554
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expérience, manipulation, épreuve instituée pour étudier la façon dont se passent les phénomènes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-experiment · experiment · French
experiment · rank #76,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,554
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH expedia
Nearest frequency peer: expedia (-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 « experiment »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exacerbées
exacerbées
23,450 corpus weight
- expansif
expansif
23,449 corpus weight
- expedia
expedia
23,448 corpus weight
- experiment
experiment
23,447 corpus weight
- exploratoir…
exploratoires
23,446 corpus weight
- ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil
23,444 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « experiment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | experiment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɪk.ˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #76,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « experiment » en français
Rare enough to double-check
experiment is uncommon French at frequency #76,554 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɪk.ˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
experiment has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is experiment, spelled E-X-P-E-R-I-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Expérience, manipulation, épreuve instituée pour étudier la façon dont se passent les phénomènes.
- 2Expérimentation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how experiment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Let’s design an experiment to test your theory.
Sometimes one learns more by theory than by experiment.
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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