expression
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,260
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
expression is aFrenchnoun. It means: Communication des idées ou des sentiments. Pronounced \ɛk.spʁɛ.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,260 in French word frequency. Often confused with expresso and expressive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expression |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.spʁɛ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for expression is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.spʁɛ.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,260 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for expression, with forms such as "epxression", "experssion", and "exppression". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "expresso", "expressive", "expressions", 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 expression, spelled E-X-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Communication des idées ou des sentiments.
- 2Le fait de s’exprimer par le langage.
- 3Ce qui est dit ou peut être dit par le langage.
- 4Manière de dire.
- 5Tournure de phrase, locution.
- 6La manière, le style utilisés par l’artiste.
- 7Manière de présenter ses idées ou ses sentiments par l’attitude du corps, la mimique du visage.
- 8Aptitude à exprimer par divers moyens ses idées ou ses sentiments.
- 9Manifestation ; manière dont quelqu’un ou quelque chose se manifeste.
- 10Extraction par pression du suc, du jus d’une herbe, d’un fruit, etc.
- 11Forme par laquelle on représente une valeur, un système.
- 12Traduction d’un gène en protéines.
- 13Action de représenter ou de traduire par des données diverses, de manière analogique, une réalité d’un autre ordre, éloignée ou cachée.
- 14Manière dont l’artiste ou l’écrivain manifeste dans son œuvre certains contenus psychologiques.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epxression,experssion,exppression,expresion,expresison,expressino,expressionn,expressoin,exprression,exprsesion,exrpession,exxpression,xepression
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for expression
Misspelling Variants of "expression"
Frequency rank: #1,260 in French
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