Which to use
“excellency” is a noun and “excellent” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #16,228
- “excellency” frequency rank
- #1,896
- “excellent” frequency rank
- 18124
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excellency | excellent |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Synonym of excellence; the quality of being excellent. | Having excelled, having surpassed. |
Letter map: excellency vs excellent
Shared letters muted; letters that set excellency and excellent apart highlighted. Shared run: 8. excellency runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVCCV) against excellent's 9 (VCCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for excellency / excellent
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: excellency is anoun and excellentanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18124, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excellency is recorded at frequency rank #16,228, classified as anoun. excellent is at rank #1,896, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈɛksələnt/.
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 18124, this pair ranks #446,950 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of excellency vs excellent
Shared letters: celnx. Private to "excellency": y. Private to "excellent": t.
"excellency" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCV · "excellent" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- excellency ← ecxellency · exccellency · excelelncy · excelency · excellecny · excellenccy · excellencyy · excellenncy
- excellent ← ecxellent · exccellent · excelelnt · excelent · excellennt · excellentt · excelletn · excellnet
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "excellency" and "excellent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "excellency" vs "excellent" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've compared "excellency" and "excellent". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "excellency" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excellent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #446,950 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excellency" and "excellent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excellency vs excellently". 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 #446,950 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.