exploitation

/\ɛks.plwa.ta.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,565

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

exploitation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’exploiter, de faire valoir une chose, d'en tirer le profit du produit. Pronounced \ɛks.plwa.ta.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,565 in French word frequency. Often confused with exploration and exportation.

Key facts for exploitation
PropertyValue
Headwordexploitation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛks.plwa.ta.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#1,565
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of exploitation in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for exploitation is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛks.plwa.ta.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,565 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for exploitation, with forms such as "epxloitation", "exlpoitation", and "expliotation". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "exploration", "exportation", "exploitations", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is exploitation, spelled E-X-P-L-O-I-T-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’exploiter, de faire valoir une chose, d'en tirer le profit du produit.
  2. 2
    Unité de production agricole gérée de façon indépendante (ferme, domaine, GAEC, EARL, etc.), formant une entité technique, économique et juridique sous une même gestion, quelle que soit la dispersion des parcelles et des bâtiments ; → voir exploitation agricole.
  3. 3
    Action de tirer de quelque chose ou de quelqu'un un profit illicite ou excessif.
  4. 4
    Appropriation par le capital de la plus-value issue du surtravail des salariés, rendue possible par la séparation d’avec les moyens de production, indépendamment de toute illégalité.
  5. 5
    Ensemble des activités nécessaires pour mettre en œuvre une installation, par exemple, un réseau de télécommunication.
  6. 6
    Action ou processus d’exploiter une vulnérabilité afin de provoquer un comportement non prévu.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epxloitation,exlpoitation,expliotation,explloitation,exploiattion,exploitaiton,exploitatino,exploitationn,exploitatoin,exploitattion,exploittaion,exploittation,explotiation,expolitation,expploitation,exxploitation,xeploitation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for exploitation

Misspelling Variants of "exploitation"

epxloitation12exlpoitation12expliotation12explloitation13exploiattion12exploitaiton12exploitatino12exploitationn13
Misspelling Variants of "exploitation"

Frequency rank: #1,565 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "exploitation"?
"exploitation" is spelled E-X-P-L-O-I-T-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛks.plwa.ta.sjɔ̃\.
What does "exploitation" mean?
As a noun, "exploitation" means: Action d’exploiter, de faire valoir une chose, d'en tirer le profit du produit.
What words are commonly confused with "exploitation"?
"exploitation" is commonly confused with "exploration", "exportation", "exploitations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "exploitation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "exploitation" is \ɛks.plwa.ta.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "exploitation" come from?
"exploitation" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.