expliqua
\ɛk.spli.ka\
The verdict
“expliqua” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,598. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,598
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de expliquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expliqua · expliqua · French
expliqua · rank #30,598 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,598
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH excédents
Nearest frequency peer: excédents (-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 « expliqua »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- EPA
EPA
69,407 corpus weight
- EV
EV
69,406 corpus weight
- excédents
excédents
69,404 corpus weight
- expliqua
expliqua
69,403 corpus weight
- expulsée
expulsée
69,402 corpus weight
- exquise
exquise
69,400 corpus weight
What this shows « expliqua » 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 | expliqua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.spli.ka\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « expliqua »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around expliqua (IPA \ɛk.spli.ka\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,598 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de expliquer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for expliqua, with forms such as "epxliqua", "exlpiqua", and "expilqua". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "explique", "expliquer", "expliquez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is expliqua, spelled E-X-P-L-I-Q-U-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de expliquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how expliqua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce matin-là, il lui expliqua que l’on était en train de « désanctifier » le pays et que les communes allaient devoir changer de noms, y compris celles qui ne portaient pas celui d’un saint.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxliqua
- exlpiqua
- expilqua
- expliqau
- expliqqua
- expliuqa
- explliqua
- explqiua
- exppliqua
- exxpliqua
- xepliqua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of expliqua - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).