experimental
\ɛkspeʁimɛnˈtaːl\
The verdict
“experimental” is uncommon French (frequency #62,265 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,265
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expérimental : relatif à l’expérience, par opposition à la théorie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-experimental · experimental · French
experimental · rank #62,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,265
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH existeront
Nearest frequency peer: existeront (-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 « experimental »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exaltée
exaltée
37,739 corpus weight
- exceptée
exceptée
37,738 corpus weight
- existeront
existeront
37,737 corpus weight
- experimental
experimental
37,736 corpus weight
- exproprier
exproprier
37,735 corpus weight
- Fajr
Fajr
37,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « experimental » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | experimental |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛkspeʁimɛnˈtaːl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #62,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « experimental » en français
Rare enough to double-check
experimental is uncommon French at frequency #62,265 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛkspeʁimɛnˈtaːl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for experimental, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 experimental, spelled E-X-P-E-R-I-M-E-N-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Expérimental : relatif à l’expérience, par opposition à la théorie.
- 2Expérimental : porté sur de nouvelles expériences, d’avant-garde ; aussi avec expériences sur soi-même ou en interaction avec le public.
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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