expressivité
\ɛk.spʁe.si.vi.te\
The verdict
“expressivité” is uncommon French (frequency #55,273 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,273
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère expressif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expressivite · expressivité · French
expressivité · rank #55,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,273
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH existentialis…
Nearest frequency peer: existentialisme (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « expressivité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exaspérant
exaspérant
44,731 corpus weight
- exhale
exhale
44,730 corpus weight
- existential…
existentialisme
44,729 corpus weight
- expressivité
expressivité
44,728 corpus weight
- exécrables
exécrables
44,726 corpus weight
- facultatifs
facultatifs
44,725 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expressivité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expressivité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.spʁe.si.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #55,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expressivité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expressivité is uncommon French at frequency #55,273 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛk.spʁe.si.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for expressivité in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is expressivité, spelled E-X-P-R-E-S-S-I-V-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère expressif.
- 2Capacité d’un gène ou d’un génotype à exprimer différents phénotypes en fonction de son environnement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expressivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa façon de jouer, ses notes filées sont d’une expressivité chargée d’émotion.
Ils pensent que cette sénescence favorise l’expressivité de certains gènes léthaux ou subléthaux.
This word in other languages
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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