excellencies

noun

"excellencies" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“excellencies” is uncommon English (frequency #98,093 among 18,836 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#98,093
frequency rank, English
18,836
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of excellency

Key facts for excellencies
PropertyValue
Headwordexcellencies
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Frequency rank#98,093
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “excellencies” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). excellencies lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

excellencies is uncommon English at frequency #98,093 among 18,836 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of excellency".

Zero misspellings are on record for excellencies in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is excellencies, spelled E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-C-I-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    plural of excellency

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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "excellencies"?
"excellencies" is spelled E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-C-I-E-S.
What does "excellencies" mean?
As a noun, "excellencies" means: plural of excellency
What language does "excellencies" come from?
"excellencies" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “excellencies”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-C-I-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list