express
\ɛk.spʁɛs\
The verdict
“express” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,074. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,074
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie un train qui va plus vite que les trains ordinaires et qui ne s’arrête qu’à un petit nombre de stations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-express · express · French
express · rank #4,074 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,074
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH environs
Nearest frequency peer: environs (-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 « express »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- développe
développe
95,930 corpus weight
- entraîner
entraîner
95,929 corpus weight
- environs
environs
95,928 corpus weight
- express
express
95,927 corpus weight
- exprime
exprime
95,926 corpus weight
- flux
flux
95,925 corpus weight
What this shows « express » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | express |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.spʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « express »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around express (IPA \ɛk.spʁɛs\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,074 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for express, with forms such as "epxress", "experss", and "exppress". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "expresse", "expresso", "expressif", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 express, spelled E-X-P-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un train qui va plus vite que les trains ordinaires et qui ne s’arrête qu’à un petit nombre de stations.
- 2Rapide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how express appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un nouveau train express ayant lieu le samedi de chaque semaine partira de Nantes à 5 h. 25 soir, arrivera à Saint-Nazaire à 6 h. 51 et au Croisic à 7 h. 50.
En ce qui concerne le raccordement Luxembourg-Châtelet, l’intérêt de cette jonction n’étant pas discuté, je ne m’y étendrai pas ; je veux simplement souligner, en passant, que si l’on adoptait la proposition déposée par MM. Demeure, Fleury, Satragne et Denis, laquelle prévoit une ligne express « Gare Montparnasse nouvelle » — située à la périphérie de Par…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxress
- experss
- exppress
- expres
- exprress
- exprses
- exrpess
- exxpress
- xepress
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of express - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).