explosa
\ɛks.plo.za\
The verdict
“explosa” is uncommon French (frequency #55,951 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,951
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de exploser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-explosa · explosa · French
explosa · rank #55,951 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,951
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH expat
Nearest frequency peer: expat (-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 « explosa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- excroissance
excroissance
44,053 corpus weight
- exosquelette
exosquelette
44,052 corpus weight
- expat
expat
44,051 corpus weight
- explosa
explosa
44,050 corpus weight
- explosée
explosée
44,049 corpus weight
- expéditif
expéditif
44,048 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « explosa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | explosa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛks.plo.za\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « explosa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
explosa is uncommon French at frequency #55,951 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛks.plo.za\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de exploser.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for explosa, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 explosa, spelled E-X-P-L-O-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de exploser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how explosa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Grognant et se tordant d’impatience, elle explosa tout à coup : “Ô le poéto, jamais tu décames !”
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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