expiatoire
\ɛks.pja.twaʁ\
The verdict
“expiatoire” is uncommon French (frequency #65,145 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,145
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est destiné à une expiation religieuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expiatoire · expiatoire · French
expiatoire · rank #65,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,145
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH excédée
Nearest frequency peer: excédée (-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 « expiatoire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- euclidienne
euclidienne
34,859 corpus weight
- excédée
excédée
34,857 corpus weight
- expiatoire
expiatoire
34,856 corpus weight
- externaliser
externaliser
34,855 corpus weight
- extractives
extractives
34,854 corpus weight
- Fairbanks
Fairbanks
34,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expiatoire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expiatoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛks.pja.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expiatoire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expiatoire is uncommon French at frequency #65,145 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛks.pja.twaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est destiné à une expiation religieuse.".
expiatoire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is expiatoire, spelled E-X-P-I-A-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est destiné à une expiation religieuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expiatoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nul doute que le dieu pur , Apollon , ne s'entoure surtout de purificateurs. Le sang d'un monstre l'a souillé. Il lui faut, à lui comme à un être mortel, des cérémonies expiatoires.
Dans la Tartarie , après les dispositions purificatrices , les ablutions , vient l'onction avec la substance même de l'offrande la plus pure , les nouveaux époux accomplissent un pèlerinage expiatoire.
Synonyms
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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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