# excellence

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɛksələns/ · frequency rank #6,356

## Definitions
1. The quality of being excellent; brilliance
2. Something in which one excels.
3. An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.

## Etymology
From Middle English excellence, from Old French excellence, from Latin excellentia.

## Easily confused with
- **excellent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excellence-vs-excellent)
- **excellency** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excellence-vs-excellency)

## Common misspellings (14)
`ecxellence`, `exccellence`, `excelelnce`, `excelence`, `excellance`, `excellecne`, `excellencce`, `excellenec`, `excellennce`, `excellnece`, `exclelence`, `execllence`, `exxcellence`, `xecellence`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/excellence