exposition
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,521
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
exposition is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mise en vue d’une chose ou état de la chose ainsi exposée. Pronounced \ɛk.spo.zi.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,521 in French word frequency. Often confused with expositions and expédition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exposition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.spo.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for exposition is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.spo.zi.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,521 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for exposition, with forms such as "epxosition", "exopsition", and "expoistion". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "expositions", "expédition", 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 exposition, spelled E-X-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mise en vue d’une chose ou état de la chose ainsi exposée.
- 2Le fait de mettre nettement en évidence.
- 3Explication ; interprétation.
- 4Partie d'introduction d'une œuvre.
- 5Placement ou situation, par rapport au soleil, à la lumière, aux radiations, au passage des chalands, etc.
- 6Abandon des enfants par les parents qui ne peuvent ou ne veulent pas les nourrir.
- 7Peine qui consistait à exposer le condamné aux regards et aux quolibets, sur la place publique.
- 8Dans une fugue, section qui présente le thème musical qui est ensuite repris par les différentes voix.
- 9Contact d’un organisme vivant avec un agent chimique, biologique ou physique susceptible d'altérer son fonctionnement, généralement par voie cutanée, respiratoire ou digestive.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epxosition,exopsition,expoistion,exposiiton,expositino,expositionn,expositoin,exposittion,expossition,expostiion,expposition,expsoition,exxposition,xeposition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for exposition
Misspelling Variants of "exposition"
Frequency rank: #1,521 in French
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