expirant
\ɛk.spi.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“expirant” is uncommon French (frequency #70,626 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,626
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui expire, qui est près d’expirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expirant · expirant · French
expirant · rank #70,626 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,626
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH except
Nearest frequency peer: except (-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 « expirant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- except
except
29,376 corpus weight
- expirant
expirant
29,375 corpus weight
- extraient
extraient
29,373 corpus weight
- extrémismes
extrémismes
29,372 corpus weight
- fairplay
fairplay
29,371 corpus weight
- famé
famé
29,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expirant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expirant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.spi.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expirant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expirant is uncommon French at frequency #70,626 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛk.spi.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for expirant in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is expirant, spelled E-X-P-I-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui expire, qui est près d’expirer.
- 2Qui va cesser d’être.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expirant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zopire est expirant, et ce peuple éperdu levait déjà son front dans la poudre abattu.
Cependant Gillonne […] avait déjà essuyé et parfumé la poitrine du jeune homme et en avait fait autant de ses bras modelés sur un dessin antique, de ses épaules gracieusement rejetées en arrière, de son cou ombragé de boucles épaisses et qui appartenait bien plutôt à une statue de marbre de Paros qu’au corps mutilé d’un homme expirant.
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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