expulsion

\ɛks.pyl.sjɔ̃\

/\ɛks.pyl.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“expulsion” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,243. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,243
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’expulser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-expulsion · expulsion · French

expulsion · rank #8,243 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,243
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH exportation

Nearest frequency peer: exportation (-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 « expulsion »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « expulsion » 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).

expulsion vs expulsions
90% similar
expulsion vs émulsion
67% similar
expulsion vs explosion
78% similar

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

Key facts for expulsion
PropertyValue
Headwordexpulsion
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛks.pyl.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#8,243
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « expulsion »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).expulsionse 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 « exportation » (#8,242), « firme » (#8,244), « Expo » (#8,241). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « expulsion » est au #8,243. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around expulsion (IPA \ɛks.pyl.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,243 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for expulsion, with forms such as "epxulsion", "explusion", and "exppulsion". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "expulsions", "émulsion", "explosion", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is expulsion, spelled E-X-P-U-L-S-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’expulser.
  2. 2
    Action d’expulser.
  3. 3
    Action d’expulser hors d'un pays ; déportation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La mine calcareuse a, en outre, l’inconvénient de rendre le premier laitier ferreux, apte à mazer la fonte et à rendre son expulsion du creuset difficile.
  2. Procéder à l’expulsion d’un locataire, d’un fermier.

Synonyms

course à l’échalote

This word in other languages

expulsion(English)desahucio(Español)Abschiebung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • epxulsion
  • explusion
  • exppulsion
  • expulison
  • expullsion
  • expulsino
  • expulsionn
  • expulsoin
  • expulssion
  • expuslion
  • exuplsion
  • exxpulsion
  • xepulsion

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of expulsion - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

epxulsion2explusion2exppulsion1expulison2expullsion1expulsino2expulsionn1expulsoin2
Edit distance from "expulsion"

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 "expulsion"?
"expulsion" is spelled E-X-P-U-L-S-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛks.pyl.sjɔ̃\.
What does "expulsion" mean?
As a noun, "expulsion" means: Action d’expulser.
What words are commonly confused with "expulsion"?
"expulsion" is commonly confused with "expulsions", "émulsion", "explosion". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "expulsion"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "expulsion" is \ɛks.pyl.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "expulsion" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list