# exclusive

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/ · frequency rank #2,675

## Definitions
1. Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
2. Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only.
3. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of social status, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
4. Exclusionary.
5. Whole, undivided, entire.
6. Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
7. Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.

## Etymology
From Latin exclūsīvus, from excludere (“to shut out, exclude”), from ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).

## Easily confused with
- **explosive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/exclusive-vs-explosive)
- **exclusively** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/exclusive-vs-exclusively)
- **elusive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elusive-vs-exclusive)
- **excessive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/excessive-vs-exclusive)
- **exclusion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/exclusion-vs-exclusive)

## Common misspellings (13)
`ecxlusive`, `excclusive`, `excllusive`, `exclsuive`, `excluisve`, `exclusiev`, `exclusivve`, `exclussive`, `exclusvie`, `exculsive`, `exlcusive`, `exxclusive`, `xeclusive`

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