exposant

\ɛks.po.zɑ̃\

/\ɛks.po.zɑ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“exposant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,198. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,198
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui expose des ouvrages d’art, des produits agricoles, industriels, des objets de trafic, pour les soumettre au jugement du public.

Corpus desk

Index FR-exposant · exposant · French

exposant · rank #18,198 · 12 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,198
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH ESP

Nearest frequency peer: ESP (-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 « exposant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « exposant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

exposant vs exposent
88% similar
exposant vs exposants
89% similar
exposant vs épousant
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for exposant
PropertyValue
Headwordexposant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛks.po.zɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#18,198
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « exposant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).exposantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ESP » (#18,197), « facilités » (#18,199), « erronée » (#18,196). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « exposant » est au #18,198. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around exposant (IPA \ɛks.po.zɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,198 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for exposant, with forms such as "epxosant", "exopsant", and "expoasnt". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "exposent", "exposants", "épousant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists 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 exposant, spelled E-X-P-O-S-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne qui expose des ouvrages d’art, des produits agricoles, industriels, des objets de trafic, pour les soumettre au jugement du public.
  2. 2
    Personne qui expose un fait, qui expose ses droits, ses prétentions dans une requête ou dans tout autre acte semblable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how exposant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les exposants furent très nombreux.
  2. Les raisons de l’exposant, de l’exposante sont…

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • epxosant
  • exopsant
  • expoasnt
  • exposannt
  • exposantt
  • exposatn
  • exposnat
  • expossant
  • expposant
  • expsoant
  • exxposant
  • xeposant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exposant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

epxosant2exopsant2expoasnt2exposannt1exposantt1exposatn2exposnat2expossant1
Edit distance from "exposant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "exposant"?
"exposant" is spelled E-X-P-O-S-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛks.po.zɑ̃\.
What does "exposant" mean?
As a noun, "exposant" means: Personne qui expose des ouvrages d’art, des produits agricoles, industriels, des objets de trafic, pour les soumettre au jugement du public.
What words are commonly confused with "exposant"?
"exposant" is commonly confused with "exposent", "exposants", "épousant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "exposant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "exposant" is \ɛks.po.zɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "exposant" come from?
"exposant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "exposant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list