expliquer
\ɛks.pli.ke\
The verdict
“expliquer” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,112. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,112
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre clair ; faire comprendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expliquer · expliquer · French
expliquer · rank #1,112 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,112
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Espagne
Nearest frequency peer: Espagne (-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 « expliquer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crise
crise
98,892 corpus weight
- David
David
98,891 corpus weight
- Espagne
Espagne
98,890 corpus weight
- expliquer
expliquer
98,889 corpus weight
- garder
garder
98,888 corpus weight
- généralement
généralement
98,887 corpus weight
What this shows « expliquer » 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 | expliquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛks.pli.ke\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « expliquer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around expliquer (IPA \ɛks.pli.ke\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,112 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for expliquer, with forms such as "epxliquer", "exlpiquer", and "expilquer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "expliquez", "expliques", "expliquera", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 expliquer, spelled E-X-P-L-I-Q-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre clair ; faire comprendre.
- 2Faire connaître la cause, le motif d’une chose qui paraît extraordinaire, qui est difficile à concevoir.
- 3Rendre intelligible par l’enseignement ou la démonstration.
- 4Interpréter un auteur, le traduire de vive voix.
- 5Déclarer, développer, faire entendre nettement sa pensée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expliquer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cela est difficile à expliquer.
Cela peut s’expliquer de deux façons.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxliquer
- exlpiquer
- expilquer
- expliqeur
- expliqquer
- expliquerr
- expliqure
- expliuqer
- explliquer
- explqiuer
- exppliquer
- exxpliquer
- xepliquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of expliquer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).