expropriation
\ɛks.pʁɔ.pʁi.ja.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“expropriation” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,648. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,648
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’exproprier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expropriation · expropriation · French
expropriation · rank #25,648 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #25,648
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exempt
Nearest frequency peer: exempt (-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 « expropriation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- entendit
entendit
74,357 corpus weight
- Esteban
Esteban
74,356 corpus weight
- exempt
exempt
74,354 corpus weight
- expropriati…
expropriation
74,353 corpus weight
- familiariser
familiariser
74,352 corpus weight
- fertiles
fertiles
74,351 corpus weight
What this shows « expropriation » 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 | expropriation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.pʁɔ.pʁi.ja.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #25,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « expropriation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around expropriation (IPA \ɛks.pʁɔ.pʁi.ja.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,648 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action d’exproprier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for expropriation, with forms such as "epxropriation", "exporpriation", and "exppropriation". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "expropriations", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is expropriation, spelled E-X-P-R-O-P-R-I-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’exproprier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expropriation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le moulin de Montgon ayant été supprimé par suite de la création du canal des Ardennes, outre l'indemnité d’expropriation due au propriétaire, il en était dû une au fermier […].
Le seigneur viscontier qui ne trouvait pas d'endroit convenable pour établir la fourche patibulaire, pouvait même contraindre le propriétaire d'un champ à lui céder l'emplacement dont il avait besoin : c'était une application anticipée de la loi d’expropriation pour cause d’utilité publique.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxropriation
- exporpriation
- exppropriation
- expropiration
- exproppriation
- expropraition
- expropriaiton
- expropriatino
- expropriationn
- expropriatoin
- expropriattion
- expropritaion
- exproprriation
- exprorpiation
- exprporiation
- exprropriation
- exrpopriation
- exxpropriation
- xepropriation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of expropriation - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).