excrete
/ɛkˈskɹiːt/
"excrete" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“excrete” is uncommon English (frequency #66,648 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,648
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system.
Corpus desk
Index EN-excrete · excrete · English
excrete · rank #66,648 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,648
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH extol
Nearest frequency peer: extol (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “excrete”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- eruptive
eruptive
33,358 corpus weight
- ESG
ESG
33,357 corpus weight
- evaluative
evaluative
33,355 corpus weight
- excrete
excrete
33,353 corpus weight
- extol
extol
33,352 corpus weight
- fairplay
fairplay
33,350 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “excrete” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “excrete” in English
Rare enough to double-check
excrete is uncommon English at frequency #66,648 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɛkˈskɹiːt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excrete appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Your open pores excrete sweat and dirt.
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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