explicit
\ɛks.pli.sit\
The verdict
“explicit” is uncommon French (frequency #75,675 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,675
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indication qu’un texte est terminé, mentionnant parfois l’auteur et la date.
Corpus desk
Index FR-explicit · explicit · French
explicit · rank #75,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,675
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exorbitante
Nearest frequency peer: exorbitante (-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 « explicit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exiguë
exiguë
24,328 corpus weight
- exorbitante
exorbitante
24,327 corpus weight
- explicit
explicit
24,326 corpus weight
- expulsent
expulsent
24,325 corpus weight
- factuels
factuels
24,323 corpus weight
- fagnes
fagnes
24,322 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « explicit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | explicit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.pli.sit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « explicit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
explicit is uncommon French at frequency #75,675 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛks.pli.sit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
explicit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is explicit, spelled E-X-P-L-I-C-I-T.
Definition
- 1Indication qu’un texte est terminé, mentionnant parfois l’auteur et la date.
- 2Fin d’un chapitre ou d’un livre (par exemple, le dernier chapitre, ou les dernières phrases, etc).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how explicit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque notice d’œuvre, […], comprend le titre et ses formes variantes, un commentaire concis, les incipit et explicit (ou le texte entier s’il est très court), la liste des manuscrits […] et quatre niveaux de bibliographie.
Voici enfin quelques pistes de réflexion possibles : – l’articulation narrative de l’incipit et de l’explicit, notamment dans la forme du récit herméneutique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).