exceedance
ex·ceed·ance/ɛkˈsiːdn̩s/noun
exceedance is spelled E-X-C-E-E-D-A-N-C-E, 3 syllables: ex·ceed·ance. The wrong spelling people search most is excedance: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Exceedance is a noun meaning “The extent to which an action, activity or substance exceeds a limit set by recommended practice…”. The plural of exceedance is exceedances.
How many letters and syllables are in exceedance?
| Letters | 10: E-X-C-E-E-D-A-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ex·ceed·ance |
| In writing | about once in every 30 million words; the 167,786th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, excedance, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell exceedance?
Exceedance is spelled E-X-C-E-E-D-A-N-C-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for exceedance in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is exceedance?
Exceedance appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce exceedance?
- /ɛkˈsiːdn̩s/
- /ɪkˈsiːdn̩s/
Exceedance has 3 syllables, split ex·ceed·ance in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of exceedance
- exceedances plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does exceedance mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The extent to which an action, activity or substance exceeds a limit set by recommended practice, legislation, etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Exceedance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | excedencia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does exceedance come from?
From exceed + -ance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).