exproprier
\ɛks.pʁɔ.pʁi.je\
The verdict
“exproprier” is uncommon French (frequency #62,266 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,266
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Priver (quelqu’un) d’une propriété immobilière, pour cause d’utilité publique et moyennant une indemnité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exproprier · exproprier · French
exproprier · rank #62,266 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,266
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH experimental
Nearest frequency peer: experimental (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « exproprier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exceptée
exceptée
37,738 corpus weight
- existeront
existeront
37,737 corpus weight
- experimental
experimental
37,736 corpus weight
- exproprier
exproprier
37,735 corpus weight
- Fajr
Fajr
37,734 corpus weight
- fanées
fanées
37,733 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exproprier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exproprier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛks.pʁɔ.pʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exproprier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exproprier is uncommon French at frequency #62,266 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛks.pʁɔ.pʁi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Priver (quelqu’un) d’une propriété immobilière, pour cause d’utilité publique et moyennant une indemnité.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for exproprier, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is exproprier, spelled E-X-P-R-O-P-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Priver (quelqu’un) d’une propriété immobilière, pour cause d’utilité publique et moyennant une indemnité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exproprier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand ils ne peuvent s’entendre, l’affaire est portée devant un jury qui se prononce souverainement sur l’offre de la Ville et la demande du propriétaire ou du locataire exproprié.
« Le président tanzanien peut exproprier n’importe qui, toute terre lui appartenant », dénonce Thomas Bart.
This word in other languages
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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