express

/\ɛk.spʁɛs\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,074

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

express is anFrenchadj. It means: Qualifie un train qui va plus vite que les trains ordinaires et qui ne s’arrête qu’à un petit nombre de stations. Pronounced \ɛk.spʁɛs\. It ranks #4,074 in French word frequency. Often confused with expresse and expresso.

Key facts for express
PropertyValue
Headwordexpress
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɛk.spʁɛs\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,074
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for express is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.spʁɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,074 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for express, with forms such as "epxress", "experss", and "exppress". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "expresse", "expresso", "expressif", 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 express, spelled E-X-P-R-E-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualifie un train qui va plus vite que les trains ordinaires et qui ne s’arrête qu’à un petit nombre de stations.
  2. 2
    Rapide.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epxress,experss,exppress,expres,exprress,exprses,exrpess,exxpress,xepress

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for express

Misspelling Variants of "express"

epxress7experss7exppress8expres6exprress8exprses7exrpess7exxpress8
Misspelling Variants of "express"

Frequency rank: #4,074 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "express"?
"express" is spelled E-X-P-R-E-S-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛk.spʁɛs\.
What does "express" mean?
As an adj, "express" means: Qualifie un train qui va plus vite que les trains ordinaires et qui ne s’arrête qu’à un petit nombre de stations.
What words are commonly confused with "express"?
"express" is commonly confused with "expresse", "expresso", "expressif". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "express"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "express" is \ɛk.spʁɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "express" come from?
"express" 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.