explicite
\ɛk.spli.sit\
The verdict
“explicite” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,000
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est exprimé, rédigé ou énoncé par quelque chose de manière directe, d’une façon claire et précise sur laquelle on ne peut se tromper. Dans le cas d’un texte, l’explicite est ce qu’il affirme te...
Corpus desk
Index FR-explicite · explicite · French
explicite · rank #10,000 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #10,000
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exigeant
Nearest frequency peer: exigeant (-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 « explicite »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- entraînant
entraînant
90,005 corpus weight
- exigeant
exigeant
90,002 corpus weight
- explicite
explicite
90,001 corpus weight
- expriment
expriment
90,000 corpus weight
- facultés
facultés
89,999 corpus weight
- faiblesses
faiblesses
89,998 corpus weight
What this shows « explicite » 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 | explicite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.spli.sit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « explicite »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around explicite (IPA \ɛk.spli.sit\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,000 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est exprimé, rédigé ou énoncé par quelque chose de manière directe, d’une façon claire et précise sur laquelle on ne peut se tromper. Dans le cas d’un texte, l’explicite est ce qu’il affirme te...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for explicite, with forms such as "epxlicite", "exlpicite", and "expilcite". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "exploite", "expliciter", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 explicite, spelled E-X-P-L-I-C-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est exprimé, rédigé ou énoncé par quelque chose de manière directe, d’une façon claire et précise sur laquelle on ne peut se tromper. Dans le cas d’un texte, l’explicite est ce qu’il affirme textuellement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how explicite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Monsieur, en arrivant près du carrosse, fut frappé de cet éclat ; il témoigna son admiration en termes assez explicites pour que le chevalier de Lorraine haussât les épaules dans le groupe des courtisans
J'ai reçu des nouvelles du front ; lequel, on ne me le dit pas. Le timbre de la poste est mystérieux. Il porte seulement ces mots peu explicites : Trésor et Postes, 20 octobre.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxlicite
- exlpicite
- expilcite
- explciite
- expliccite
- expliciet
- explicitte
- explictie
- expliicte
- expllicite
- expplicite
- exxplicite
- xeplicite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of explicite - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).