expertise
French, noun
expertise is spelled E-X-P-E-R-T-I-S-E (9 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,118th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Expertise is a French feminine noun meaning “appraisal, valuation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, expertisé is a different word: “past participle of expertiser”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Examen, estimation d’un bien faits par un expert”.
What does expertise mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineappraisal, valuation
- 2
feminineassessment
une expertise psychiatrique
- 3
feminineexpertness, expertise, expert knowledge (great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby)
verb
- 1
past participle of expertiser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Examen, estimation d’un bien faits par un expert. 2. Procès-verbal, rapport des experts. 3. Compétence, savoir-faire, qualité d’une personne experte
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of expertise
- expertises plural
- expertisée feminine
- expertisés masculine plural
- expertisées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to expertise
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is expertise in French?
expertise appears 14 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).