expresso
\ɛks.pʁɛ.so\
The verdict
“expresso” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,815. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,815
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Café très corsé avec un fort arôme, obtenu en faisant passer rapidement de l’eau bouillante sous pression à travers du café finement moulu et torréfié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expresso · expresso · French
expresso · rank #32,815 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,815
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exportés
Nearest frequency peer: exportés (-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 « expresso »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- exempte
exempte
67,189 corpus weight
- exerça
exerça
67,188 corpus weight
- exportés
exportés
67,187 corpus weight
- expresso
expresso
67,186 corpus weight
- fastidieux
fastidieux
67,185 corpus weight
- ferri
ferri
67,183 corpus weight
What this shows « expresso » 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 | expresso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.pʁɛ.so\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « expresso »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around expresso (IPA \ɛks.pʁɛ.so\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,815 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Café très corsé avec un fort arôme, obtenu en faisant passer rapidement de l’eau bouillante sous pression à travers du café finement moulu et torréfié.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for expresso, with forms such as "epxresso", "expersso", and "exppresso". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "exprès", "express", "expresse", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is expresso, spelled E-X-P-R-E-S-S-O.
Definition
- 1Café très corsé avec un fort arôme, obtenu en faisant passer rapidement de l’eau bouillante sous pression à travers du café finement moulu et torréfié.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expresso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait épuisé ses fiches bristol, écarté deux ou trois hypothèses de travail, avait avalé cinq expresso et raté le dernier service de la cantine.
Je trouve une place à la terrasse qui donne sur la salle des pas perdus. Je commande un double-expresso, un croissant et un pain au chocolat.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxresso
- expersso
- exppresso
- expreso
- expresos
- exprresso
- exprseso
- exrpesso
- exxpresso
- xepresso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of expresso - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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