exprime

\ɛk.spʁim\

/\ɛk.spʁim\/ verb

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The verdict

“exprime” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,075. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,075
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exprimer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-exprime · exprime · French

exprime · rank #4,075 · 10 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,075
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH express

Nearest frequency peer: express (-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 « exprime »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « exprime » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

exprime vs extreme
71% similar
exprime vs exprimer
88% similar
exprime vs exprimée
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for exprime
PropertyValue
Headwordexprime
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛk.spʁim\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,075
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « exprime »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).exprimese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « express » (#4,074), « flux » (#4,076), « environs » (#4,073). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « exprime » est au #4,075. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around exprime (IPA \ɛk.spʁim\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,075 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for exprime, with forms such as "epxrime", "expirme", and "expprime". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "extreme", "exprimer", "exprimée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is exprime, spelled E-X-P-R-I-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exprimer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exprimer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de exprimer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de exprimer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de exprimer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how exprime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En 1980, l’Italie est d’ailleurs déjà celui des pays du Marché commun qui a les plus graves problèmes d’environnement : des égouts de Naples aux pollutions chimiques de la plaine du Pô, la péninsule exprime son incivisme glorieux. Dans une civilisation industrielle avancée, le chacun pour sa peau se paye au prix fort.
  2. Les traductions les plus habiles ne contourneront jamais l’écueil de ces pertes et ajouts nocifs, et leur lecteur francophone ne sera pas aidé en permanence par le réseau de la dialectique spontanée du langage, comme c’est le cas plus qu’ailleurs dans un livre qui donne la parole à la conscience naturelle (laquelle s’exprime toujours dans une langue « nat…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • epxrime
  • expirme
  • expprime
  • expriem
  • exprimme
  • exprmie
  • exprrime
  • exrpime
  • exxprime
  • xeprime

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exprime - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

epxrime2expirme2expprime1expriem2exprimme1exprmie2exprrime1exrpime2
Edit distance from "exprime"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "exprime"?
"exprime" is spelled E-X-P-R-I-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛk.spʁim\.
What does "exprime" mean?
As a verb, "exprime" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exprimer.
What words are commonly confused with "exprime"?
"exprime" is commonly confused with "extreme", "exprimer", "exprimée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "exprime"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "exprime" is \ɛk.spʁim\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "exprime" come from?
"exprime" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "exprime", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

express#4,074déposer#4,070légumes#4,082maîtres#4,083

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

mineurs10 variantscouvrir10 variantsrelever10 variantsthèmes10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list