expliquons
\ɛk.spli.kɔ̃\
The verdict
“expliquons” is uncommon French (frequency #57,258 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,258
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de expliquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expliquons · expliquons · French
expliquons · rank #57,258 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,258
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH expectative
Nearest frequency peer: expectative (-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 « expliquons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exaltante
exaltante
42,746 corpus weight
- examinateurs
examinateurs
42,745 corpus weight
- expectative
expectative
42,744 corpus weight
- expliquons
expliquons
42,743 corpus weight
- extinctions
extinctions
42,742 corpus weight
- extrader
extrader
42,741 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expliquons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expliquons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.spli.kɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expliquons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expliquons is uncommon French at frequency #57,258 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛk.spli.kɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
expliquons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 expliquons, spelled E-X-P-L-I-Q-U-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de expliquer.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de expliquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how expliquons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la cinquième édition de cette satire, supprimée par l’auteur en 1812, il changea de nouveau d’opinion sur ce professeur, et en altéra l’expression ainsi: «Je laisse la topographie au rapide Gell.» Expliquons la raison de ce nouveau changement par la note suivante: «Rapide; en effet, il a topographisé et typographisé en trois jours les états du roi Pr…
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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