exploratoire
\ɛks.plo.ʁa.twaʁ\
The verdict
“exploratoire” is uncommon French (frequency #51,459 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,459
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à une exploration, qui cherche à explorer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exploratoire · exploratoire · French
exploratoire · rank #51,459 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,459
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exposa
Nearest frequency peer: exposa (+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 « exploratoire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- essaierons
essaierons
48,547 corpus weight
- exhumation
exhumation
48,544 corpus weight
- exploratoire
exploratoire
48,542 corpus weight
- exposa
exposa
48,541 corpus weight
- extended
extended
48,540 corpus weight
- exubérante
exubérante
48,538 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exploratoire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exploratoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛks.plo.ʁa.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #51,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exploratoire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exploratoire is uncommon French at frequency #51,459 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛks.plo.ʁa.twaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à une exploration, qui cherche à explorer.".
exploratoire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is exploratoire, spelled E-X-P-L-O-R-A-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à une exploration, qui cherche à explorer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exploratoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un piaf curieux était déjà venu aux nouvelles. Posé sur la rambarde du balcon, il avait jeté un regard exploratoire dans la pièce. Constatant que ni les miettes de croissant, ni le fond de jus d'orange n'étaient au rendez-vous, il s'était envolé en piaillant de dépit.
Quand le principe d’un numéro des TM [Les Temps modernes] fut acquis et approuvé par Sartre, Flapan organisa un voyage exploratoire en Israël afin que j’y choisisse les contributeurs de la partie juive.
This word in other languages
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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