expier
\ɛk.spje\
The verdict
“expier” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,421. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,421
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réparer un crime, une faute par le repentir, ou une peine, un châtiment imposé ou accepté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expier · expier · French
expier · rank #43,421 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,421
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Etna
Nearest frequency peer: Etna (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « expier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- eo
eo
56,583 corpus weight
- Etna
Etna
56,581 corpus weight
- expier
expier
56,580 corpus weight
- expliquaient
expliquaient
56,579 corpus weight
- exposait
exposait
56,578 corpus weight
- externalisa…
externalisation
56,577 corpus weight
What this shows « expier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.spje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « expier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around expier (IPA \ɛk.spje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,421 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Réparer un crime, une faute par le repentir, ou une peine, un châtiment imposé ou accepté.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for expier, with forms such as "epxier", "exiper", and "expeir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "exprès", "expire", "exposer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 expier, spelled E-X-P-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Réparer un crime, une faute par le repentir, ou une peine, un châtiment imposé ou accepté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lucas de Beaumanoir a décidé que la mort de la juive serait une offrande suffisante pour expier toutes les fautes amoureuses des chevaliers du Temple ; […].
J’apporte dans mon existence nouvelle un sentiment qu’il n’a jamais connu, celui d’expier une ancienne vie certainement nuisible et de racheter des torts dont je me sens encore aujourd’hui responsable, parce qu’il y a, selon moi, entre toutes les femmes également respectables, une solidarité instinctive de droits, d’honneur et de vertus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxier
- exiper
- expeir
- exppier
- exxpier
- xepier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of expier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).