exprime

/\ɛk.spʁim\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,075

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

exprime is aFrenchverb. It means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exprimer. Pronounced \ɛk.spʁim\. It ranks #4,075 in French word frequency. Often confused with extreme and exprimer.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of exprime in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for exprime is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.spʁim\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,075 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for exprime, with forms such as "epxrime", "expirme", and "expprime". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "extreme", "exprimer", "exprimée", 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 exprime, spelled E-X-P-R-I-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epxrime,expirme,expprime,expriem,exprimme,exprmie,exprrime,exrpime,exxprime,xeprime

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for exprime

Misspelling Variants of "exprime"

epxrime7expirme7expprime8expriem7exprimme8exprmie7exprrime8exrpime7
Misspelling Variants of "exprime"

Frequency rank: #4,075 in French

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. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.