excrete
/ɛkˈskɹiːt/
"excrete" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“excrete” is an uncommon English word, ranked #66,648 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #66,648
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excrete |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɛkˈskɹiːt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “excrete” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for excrete is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɛkˈskɹiːt/. Corpus data places it at rank #66,648 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.".
excrete doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin excrētum, past participle of excernō, from ex- (“out”), and cernō (“separate”). The correct English form is excrete, spelled E-X-C-R-E-T-E.
Definition
- 1To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin excrētum, past participle of excernō, from ex- (“out”), and cernō (“separate”).
Synonyms
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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 “excrete”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-X-C-R-E-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɛkˈskɹiːt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.