exciter
"exciter" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exciter” is uncommon English (frequency #95,954 among 18,836 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,954
- frequency rank, English
- 18,836
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - One who or that which excites.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exciter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “exciter” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
exciter is uncommon English at frequency #95,954 among 18,836 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for exciter, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From excite + -er. The correct English form is exciter, spelled E-X-C-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who or that which excites.
- 2The electronic oscillator that generates the carrier signal for a transmitter.
- 3An audio signal processing technique used to enhance a signal by dynamic equalization, phase manipulation, harmonic synthesis of (usually) high frequency signals, and through the addition of subtle harmonic distortion.
Etymology
From excite + -er.
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.
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Using “exciter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-X-C-I-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.