expresso
\ɛks.pʁɛ.so\
The verdict
“expresso” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #32,815 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #32,815
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
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) |
Where “expresso” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for expresso is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛks.pʁɛ.so\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,815 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
Synonyms
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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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Using “expresso”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-X-P-R-E-S-S-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛks.pʁɛ.so\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “exprès” - see the side-by-side comparison. expresso vs exprès
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.