expressif
\ɛks.pʁɛ.sif\
The verdict
“expressif” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,059. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,059
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui exprime bien la pensée, le sentiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expressif · expressif · French
expressif · rank #27,059 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,059
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH explorations
Nearest frequency peer: explorations (-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 « expressif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- escobar
escobar
72,945 corpus weight
- exerçait
exerçait
72,944 corpus weight
- explorations
explorations
72,943 corpus weight
- expressif
expressif
72,942 corpus weight
- farouchement
farouchement
72,941 corpus weight
- façonner
façonner
72,940 corpus weight
What this shows « expressif » 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 | expressif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛks.pʁɛ.sif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « expressif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around expressif (IPA \ɛks.pʁɛ.sif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,059 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 expressif, with forms such as "epxressif", "experssif", and "exppressif". 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, "expresso", "expression", "expressive", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 expressif, spelled E-X-P-R-E-S-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui exprime bien la pensée, le sentiment.
- 2Qui a beaucoup d’expression.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expressif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans leurs oupa-oupa, qui passent avec raison pour des danses très obscènes, les acteurs peignent par des pantomimes expressives toutes les passions qui les exaltent.
Saint Augustin le déclare expressément : « une chose notifiée par allégorie est certainement plus expressive, plus agréable, plus imposante que lorsqu’on l’énonce en des termes techniques. »
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxressif
- experssif
- exppressif
- expresif
- expresisf
- expressfi
- expressiff
- exprressif
- exprsesif
- exrpessif
- exxpressif
- xepressif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of expressif - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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