excitatory
adjective
excitatory is spelled E-X-C-I-T-A-T-O-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is excitory: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Excitatory is an adjective meaning “Stimulating, exciting or causing excitation; excitative”.
How many letters and syllables are in excitatory?
| Letters | 10: E-X-C-I-T-A-T-O-R-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 56,788th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, excitory, 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 excitatory?
Excitatory is spelled E-X-C-I-T-A-T-O-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for excitatory 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 excitatory?
Excitatory appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th 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).
Forms of excitatory
- more excitatory comparative
- most excitatory superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does excitatory mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Stimulating, exciting or causing excitation; excitative.
- 2
Of or relating to excitation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Excitatory in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense stimulating, exciting or causing excitation; excitative:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | excitador |
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.