expulsant
\ɛk.spyl.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“expulsant” is uncommon French (frequency #73,983 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,983
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de expulser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-expulsant · expulsant · French
expulsant · rank #73,983 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,983
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exonérée
Nearest frequency peer: exonérée (-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 « expulsant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- excites
excites
26,021 corpus weight
- exils
exils
26,020 corpus weight
- exonérée
exonérée
26,019 corpus weight
- expulsant
expulsant
26,018 corpus weight
- expérimenta…
expérimentant
26,017 corpus weight
- extensibles
extensibles
26,016 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « expulsant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expulsant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.spyl.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « expulsant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
expulsant is uncommon French at frequency #73,983 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛk.spyl.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de expulser.".
No misspelling variants are generated for expulsant in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is expulsant, spelled E-X-P-U-L-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de expulser.
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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