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“exprime” and “expriment” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#4,075
“exprime” frequency rank
#10,001
“expriment” frequency rank
14076
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature exprime expriment
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exprimer. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de exprimer.

Same sound, different letters: exprime vs expriment

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.

7 ch
exprime
9 ch
expriment

Ear matches; page differs - exprime and expriment

This is the hard kind. exprime and expriment are pronounced identically (\ɛk.spʁim\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “exprime” sits inside “expriment”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14076, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

exprime is recorded at frequency rank #4,075, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spʁim\. expriment is at rank #10,001, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛk.spʁim\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 14076, this pair ranks #398,304 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of exprime vs expriment

Shared letters: eimprx. Private to "exprime": -. Private to "expriment": nt.

"exprime" · 7 letters · shape VCCCVCV  ·  "expriment" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • exprimeepxrime · expirme · expprime · expriem · exprimme · exprmie · exprrime · exrpime
  • exprimentepxriment · expirment · exppriment · expriemnt · exprimennt · exprimentt · exprimetn · exprimment

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "exprime" for "expriment" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛk.spʁim\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "exprime" or "expriment"?
"exprime" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,075 in our French list, against #10,001 for "expriment". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "exprime" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "expriment" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #398,304 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "exprime" and "expriment" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "exprimaient vs expriment". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #398,304 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list